On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:08:51PM +0100, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote: > I was wondering whether we can find a better solution to the scenarios > where Wayland crashes. > You all know that for the X case, when it crashes, everything open is > lost, you need to re-login and you need to reopen your apps again. > Non-saved work will be lost.
In my experience triaging X bugs reported against Ubuntu, these days it is relatively uncommon for the _X server_ itself to crash. Rather, most faults are in the kernel drm code via a GPU hang or similar, and those generally always require a reboot to reset. Improved diagnostic tools would be a big help here. I would imagine, especially given Wayland's much smaller codebase size, that Wayland crashes (i.e. userspace segfaults) are going to be even more rare. I assume GPU hangs will be just as catastrophic with Wayland as with X since they occur in kernel code, and are going to be no easier to work around. Perhaps if there was a reliable way to reset the gpu... So, being able to restart wayland without closing apps would be a nifty feature, but I would suspect it would not get much utilization in practice. Bryce _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
