Comment 106 for bug 101943

(In reply to comment #3)
> If it was simply swamping the xserver, I'd expect that to occur with about the
> same performance in both situations.

Well, compiz does incur some overhead and generally has an impact on how things are drawn, but yeah. Also, the Debian bug report mentions that usually the bad behaviour persists after killing the application, in which case only killing compiz recovers. This made me wonder if there could be some kind of damage event related feedback loop between the X server and compiz.