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Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're describing Wayland running into issues due to overall high system load, and not been given enough scheduler time to accept messages?

edit: This issue? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/159 - didn't find anything else matching the description, and personally have never seen that, both on my low specs notebook or my workstation, which probably counts as higher spec.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

correct, this is the same issue, this generally really only happens with a sustained all core workload that will consistently leave you cpu at 100%, since if it's not sustained, the kernel will allot some time to the programs, and the crash wont happen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I guess that explains why I'm not seeing it - my workstation has 64 threads and more than enough memory, and on my notebook I'm scheduling load intensive stuff to not interfere with interactive device usage.