Compiz Consumes Excessive CPU/Memory

[SlugiusRex]

Compiz (running on VMWare platform ) consumes excessive CPU time and memory ( 434.9 MiB) . Makes UI totally unresponsive.

See attached screenshot of system monitor.

BTW - attempted to report error using APPORT - but there were autogenerated TAGS in the bug report which would not allow the page to be submitted.

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

Screenshot displaying memory consumption & CPU usage

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

BTW - attempted to report error using APPORT - but there were autogenerated TAGS in the bug report which would not allow the page to be submitted.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Eagle (me-ngeefk4xayt3t4u9wat)]

Using Ubuntu 12, and have the same problem.

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

In my case, this was not related to "[fglrx] compiz uses 100% CPU when screen turns off (spinning in glXWaitVideoSyncSGI or glXSwapBuffers)" Bug #969860 because it happened while the screen was active.

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

I am noticing this issue again on Raring Alpha 1 - it seems to have gone away under Quantal. However, the CPU usage is not extremely high like before.

See attached screenshot

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please run this command and paste the output here:
    /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

[SlugiusRex (slugiusrex)]

OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1
Not software rendered: noNot blacklisted: yesGLX fbconfig: yesGLX texture from pixmap: yesGL npot or rect textures: yesGL vertex program: yesGL fragment program: yesGL vertex buffer object: yesGL framebuffer object: yesGL version is 1.4+: yes
Unity 3D supported: no

The attachment unity_support_test_RARING_VMWARE also contains these results.
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 03:39:07 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 928387] Re: Compiz Consumes Excessive CPU/Memory
>
> Please run this command and paste the output here:
> /usr/lib/nux/ -p
>
>
> ** Changed in: compiz (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/928387
>
> Title:
> Compiz Consumes Excessive CPU/Memory
>
> Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Compiz (running on VMWare platform ) consumes excessive CPU time and
> memory ( 434.9 MiB) . Makes UI totally unresponsive.
>
> See attached screenshot of system monitor.
>
> BTW - attempted to report error using APPORT - but there were
> autogenerated TAGS in the bug report which would not allow the page to
> be submitted.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/928387/+subscriptions

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1055936, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.