the csd changes make some desktop applications hog the cpu

[Krzysztof Klimonda]

After latest gtk+2.0 upgrade rhythmbox has started using a lot of cpu cycles along with X. Doesn't help to minimize window but when I close it to "tray" cpu usage is back to normal.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c796df2c03d28b45a22c8d1850f0e643
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Thu Feb 18 18:21:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100201)
Package: libgtk2.0-0 2.19.5-1ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic-pae
SourcePackage: gtk+2.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic-pae i686

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I am having the same problem with xchat since updating gtk+2.0 to 2.19.5-1ubuntu3. xchat and xorg use up 100% of the CPU. Downgrading to gtk+2.0 2.19.5-1ubuntu1 solves the problem.

If this is a different issue, please let me know and I'll open a new bug.

[Conn O Griofa (psyke83)]

I'm confirming the problem, which appears to visually affect many/all applications.

With the latest update:-
-Video playback stutters every 1/2 second
-Dragging a window is noticeably slow (especially when compositing is disabled)
-Aislerot Solitaire - dragging cards causes ghosting effect
-GTKPerf test now completes in 41 seconds, compared to previous score of 26 seconds.

[vmc (vmclark)]

"Aislerot Solitaire - dragging cards causes ghosting effect"
I first noticed the above condition.

Checking rhythmbox , I don't have any noticeable effects on playing music, but with rhythmbox opened it is making the cpu% jump way up. From 5% to 66%.

[Vish (vish)]

Causes problems in evolution too...
Every time i select a new message there is a considerable delay to open new mail [nearly 1sec, seems small delay but it is noticeable only since the last update. ]

Every time i select a new mail it displays "formatting message..." , I notice a spike in evolution CPU usage and then the message gets displayed. Most importantly this is with plain text messages which i dont think deserve the delays. [I use evolution only for LP mail and mailing lists]

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

updating the title to reflect that not only rhythmbox has the issue and sorry about the several updates some launchpad issues

[Cody Russell (bratsche)]

I've got an updated patch that I believe will solve most of these issues, and I'll try to get it released to Lucid ASAP. For me it's not fixing Rhythmbox though, but I think that may be because I've somehow gotten Rhythmbox stuck in a mode where it's trying to index my entire home directory and I'm not sure how to tell it to stop. I'm hoping that my patch will fix Rhythmbox for all of you though. :)

[Matt Behrens (zigg)]

2.19.5-1ubuntu2 is sufficient for a downgrade workaround. To avoid breakage, downgrade all of

gtk2-engines-pixbuf
libgail18
libgail-common
libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common

gnucash and pidgin also suffer from this. gnucash in particular doesn't cope well, dropping, duping, and transposing keyboard input.

[vmc (vmclark)]

Matt,

The problem is there no "2.19.5-1ubuntu2" to downgrade to. After issuing the command:

apt-cache showpkg gtk2-engines-pixbuf

The Provides only has the current version.
....
Provides:
2.19.5-1ubuntu3 -

[William Grant (wgrant)]

You can find the binaries here:

 i386: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/2.19.5-1ubuntu2/+build/1505842
 amd64: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/2.19.5-1ubuntu2/+build/1505840

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.19.5-1ubuntu4

---------------
gtk+2.0 (2.19.5-1ubuntu4) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/062_client_side_decoration.patch:
    - update by Cody Russell to fix excessive cpu usage issues
      (lp: #523949)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:13:06 +0100

[Matt Behrens (zigg)]

vmc: or, they might still be in /var/cache/apt/archives as well, a very common trick I use for downgrades.

I pulled 1ubuntu4 builds for all the above packages I listed, installed them, logged out/in and gnucash is again exhibiting severe UI slowdown.

Downgrading once again to 1ubuntu2 fixed the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The update doesn't fix the issue there, reopening

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

You can quickly test this with the "gtkperf" tool.
gtk+2.0 2.19.5-1ubuntu2: 5 - 5:30 secs
gtk+2.0 2.19.5-1ubuntu3: ~9 secs
gtk+2.0 2.19.5-1ubuntu4: ~9 secs

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

there are also more issues with the csd patch:
* it draws window decorations even for boderless windows, like at the gdm login or the eclupse splash screen
* dragging a file in nautilus results in a grey box instead of the transparent image of the file

should I open new bugs for this, or is it fine to collect them here?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

those have already been reported see bug #524869 and bug #523954

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can look to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=gtk-csd too for csd known issues

[Matt Behrens (zigg)]

Pavel: For the nautilus issue, there's bug #523954.

I'm not sure where the decorations bug is, if there is one; but it actually breaks (the admittedly really hacky) Firefox Echofon extension, making it more or less impossible to use as it seems to be impossible to deliver close/etc. events to it.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

on ubuntu lucid
gtk2-engines:
  Installed: 1:2.18.5-0ubuntu1

$ gtkperf

(gtkperf:29137): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(gtkperf:29137): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Mon Feb 22 13:50:51 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0.15
GtkComboBox - time: 14.04
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 10.74
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.38
GtkProgressBar - time: 1.69
GtkToggleButton - time: 10.27
GtkCheckButton - time: 10.76
GtkRadioButton - time: 11.52
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 3.97
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.13
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 17.60
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 16.78
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 4.11
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.30
 ---
Total time: 102.46

Quitting..

On debian unstable:
gtk2-engines:
  Installed: 1:2.18.5-1

$ gtkperf

(gtkperf:11977): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(gtkperf:11977): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Mon Feb 22 13:52:08 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0.02
GtkComboBox - time: 0.89
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 0.26
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.06
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.03
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.05
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.04
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.14
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.54
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 2.35
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.37
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 0.86
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 4.20
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.54
 ---
Total time: 10.34

Quitting..

[vmc (vmclark)]

"From post#13 ,Sebastien Bacher - The update doesn't fix the issue there, reopening" Thanks!

It didn't fix my issue either, Aislerot Solitaire "ghosting", from post#4.

 I ran the 'gtkperf' test. It finished in "Total time: 27.14". Brought up a gui and did its thing, but so what? What's that prove? I'm not all that sure what this test has to do with the "ghosting" effect.

I'm going to try what Matt Behrens wrote in post#8, and see if it goes away.

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

Sebastien, asked me to repeat the test, so here it is with latest updates.
still very far from Debian results

$ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-0:
  Installed: 2.19.5-1ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.19.5-1ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 2.19.5-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://neacm.fe.up.pt lucid/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
bugabundo@BluBUG:~/temp/gwibber$ gtkperf

(gtkperf:12291): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(gtkperf:12291): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Mon Feb 22 16:11:42 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0.07
GtkComboBox - time: 7.58
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 10.57
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.33
GtkProgressBar - time: 2.18
GtkToggleButton - time: 6.25
GtkCheckButton - time: 4.22
GtkRadioButton - time: 5.36
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 1.86
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.48
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 16.30
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 14.70
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 3.23
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.49
 ---
Total time: 73.63

Quitting..

[vmc (vmclark)]

I downloaded the binaries and move them to "/var/cache/apt/archives", but I couldn't downgrade.
I still get the:
....
Provides:
2.19.5-1ubuntu3 -

Using:

sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-pixbuf=2.19.5-1ubuntu2

I get:

E: Version '2.19.5-1ubuntu2' for 'gtk2-engines-pixbuf' was not found

[Matt Behrens (zigg)]

vmc: try

cd /var/cache/apt/archives
sudo dpkg -i gtk2-engines-pixbuf_2.19.5-1ubuntu2_i386.deb libgail18_2.19.5-1ubuntu2_i386.deb libgail-common_2.19.5-1ubuntu2_i386.deb libgtk2.0-0_2.19.5-1ubuntu2_i386.deb libgtk2.0-bin_2.19.5-1ubuntu2_all.deb libgtk2.0-common_2.19.5-1ubuntu2_all.deb

[Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel)]

from a fresh Guest Session, fully updated

$ gtkperf

(gtkperf:9151): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

(gtkperf:9151): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
GtkPerf 0.40 - Starting testing: Mon Feb 22 21:48:58 2010

GtkEntry - time: 0.04
GtkComboBox - time: 1.64
GtkComboBoxEntry - time: 1.45
GtkSpinButton - time: 0.10
GtkProgressBar - time: 0.23
GtkToggleButton - time: 0.92
GtkCheckButton - time: 0.94
GtkRadioButton - time: 0.92
GtkTextView - Add text - time: 0.78
GtkTextView - Scroll - time: 0.14
GtkDrawingArea - Lines - time: 0.40
GtkDrawingArea - Circles - time: 0.36
GtkDrawingArea - Text - time: 0.40
GtkDrawingArea - Pixbufs - time: 0.08
 ---
Total time: 8.39

Quitting..

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.19.5-1ubuntu5

---------------
gtk+2.0 (2.19.5-1ubuntu5) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/062_client_side_decoration.patch:
    - update by Cody Russell to really fix excessive cpu usage issues
      (lp: #523949, #524304)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:49:15 +0100

[Matt Behrens (zigg)]

1ubuntu5 seems to have fixed the slowdown problem for me.

[xrayA4T (xraya4t)]

Last night Rhythmbox was running at 50% CPU when playing MP3s, it is now at about 16% since I updated this morning.

[vmc (vmclark)]

It appears that "2.19.5-1ubuntu5" fixed the client-side-decorations of "ghosting" effects.
Also Rhythmbox is now under control.

Everything that I had issues with, including Plymouth, apparently have been fixed with todays daily-live.