[compiz] Random freezes when using compiz

[Julian Sikorski]

Mike Dransfield napisał(a):
>> Bummer. This just happened again. It looks like something responsible
>> for reading inputs is just crashing, as the system is still alive. I
>> think I'll fall back to metacity for now.
>>   
> 
> Have you tried starting compiz with this line?
> 
> __GL_YIELD="NOTHING" compiz --replace --indirect-rendering gconf &
> 
> The gl yield hack is reported to stop this problem.
> 
> The nVidia forum says not to use GL_YIELD with indirect rendering
> but it is fairly old and I have better performance with it.  Maybe
> someone else knows if it still valid or not.
> 
> I see the same problem when I start compiling anything large.
> The gl yield hack seems to have fixed it for now.
> 
> It is most likely that the problems you see are related to the driver. 
> It is possible that a plugin is crashing during an action
> function but it is less likely and normally you can single it out by
> removing any unnecessary plugins.
> 
> 

The thing is that I don't use indirect rendering. IIRC nvnews forums
suggested to use direct rendering, because it had better performance.