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Awesome got its name from the sound you make when it crashes and takes your entire X session with it. "Awesome."

I've been using awesome for about a year now, and never had it crash. Xmonad, however, while never crashing, would cause my Xorg process to eventually use all available RAM after several days of use without restarting.

That's extremely unlikely to be xmonad -- it is more symptomatic of writing status to a pipe that is never read from (in an external status bar).

Either way, we'd certainly love to know more, since this has never been reported before.

Yeah, I have played with Awesome recently and it is not nearly as flaky anymore. I still enjoy xmonad's test suite, however. Software that ships with a test suite tends to be more reliable than software that doesn't have tests.

(Example of software without a test suite: Emacs. No tests anywhere; not for the byte compiler, not for the memory allocator, nowhere. I am amazed it works at all.)

What? You say that software with tests is more reliable, and then give an example of reliable software without tests.

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