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compiz HIGH CPU usage only during screen lock is ON

Bug #1511727 reported by V-Mark on 2015-10-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1322751: Compiz running on Intel Haswell GPU has 100% CPU usage when computer is locked. Edit Remove

This bug affects 8 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	compiz (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I just realized that my problem is NOT screen switch OFF, but the screen lock is ON.
Therefore I removed this issue from duplicate.

My (updated) problem:

I got very HIGH CPU usage ONLY when screen lock is ON.
Again, I have NO PROBLEM during work (video playback, moving windows slowly or fast, no lag, everything is perfect),
BUT when I am out of computer: 20 secs after screen lock activates CPU fan starts and works heavily (my colleague started to complain due to my CPU fan in quiet environment).
When I switch off screen lock: compiz works nicely.
When I switch on screen lock for 1 min (after display goes off):
- My laptop is calm AFTER screen goes off,
- Ma laptop's fan starts 1 min 20 secs after screen goes off.

So confirmed: My problem is NOT screen switch OFF, but the screen lock is ON.

Data:
- Fresh install of Ubuntu 15.10 (plus some other non-desktop or gnome related packages)
- All energy consumption related settings are default (I have not changed them till now).
- Laptop: ACER Aspire V3-371
- CPU: Intel Core i5-5257U
- GPU: Intel Iris grapics 6100
- Display: 1920x1080 internal laptop display, no other display ever plugged in.
- 8G RAM
- 120G SSD

First few lines of top immediately after going on from IDLE:
top - 13:38:25 up 5:39, 3 users, load average: 1,13, 0,90, 0,58
Tasks: 200 total, 1 running, 199 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 8,6 us, 17,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 74,0 id, 0,2 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,1 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 8211348 total, 3555940 used, 4655408 free, 103832 buffers
KiB Swap: 7844308 total, 0 used, 7844308 free. 2532732 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1396 mark 20 0 288468 114380 70560 S 101,1 1,4 117:11.91 compiz
  880 root 20 0 351812 114572 101256 S 0,7 1,4 3:56.06 Xorg
1800 mark 20 0 864108 291328 78396 S 0,7 3,5 10:57.81 firefox
1365 mark 20 0 51868 8720 7216 S 0,3 0,1 0:10.89 ibus-daemon
5849 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,3 0,0 0:01.76 kworker/1:1
5914 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,3 0,0 0:00.03 kworker/u16:0
    1 root 20 0 24884 4848 3716 S 0,0 0,1 0:01.46 systemd

After 20 minutes work, top is:
top - 13:54:31 up 5:56, 3 users, load average: 0,32, 0,24, 0,32
Tasks: 198 total, 1 running, 197 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 3,6 us, 6,2 sy, 0,0 ni, 90,0 id, 0,1 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 8211348 total, 3536196 used, 4675152 free, 107652 buffers
KiB Swap: 7844308 total, 0 used, 7844308 free. 2496072 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6728 mark 20 0 7196 2844 2404 R 6,4 0,0 0:00.01 top
    1 root 20 0 24884 4848 3716 S 0,0 0,1 0:01.46 systemd
    2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.66 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
    7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:06.86 rcu_sched
    8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 rcu_bh
    9 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.02 migration/0
   10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.04 watchdog/0
   11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.04 watchdog/1
   12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.02 migration/1
   13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.54 ksoftirqd/1
   15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H
   16 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.04 watchdog/2

Please have a look at the total compiz time used (today). Over 117 mins of CPU!

$ apt-cache policy compiz
compiz:
  Telepítve: 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
  Jelölt: 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
  Verziótáblázat:
*** 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I can make any tests if you wish.
Thanks for helping.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: compiz-core 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic i686
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 30 13:44:00 2015
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: wily
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: virtualbox, 5.0.4, 4.2.0-16-generic, i686: installed
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/compiz
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:162b] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0919]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-26 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu "Wily" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20151022-23:55
MachineType: Acer Aspire V3-371
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=hu
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.2.0-16-generic root=UUID=403e935b-5da2-4b34-8dd7-14f1c0cf0846 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: compiz
UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] Nincs ilyen fájl vagy könyvtár: '/var/log/udev'
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde Corp.
dmi.bios.version: V1.28
dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: Aspire V3-371
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: V1.28
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: V1.28
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsydeCorp.:bvrV1.28:bd08/21/2015:svnAcer:pnAspireV3-371:pvrV1.28:rvnAcer:rnAspireV3-371:rvrV1.28:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrV1.28:
dmi.product.name: Aspire V3-371
dmi.product.version: V1.28
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+15.10.20151015-0ubuntu1
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.64-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.0.2-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.2-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0+git20150819-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20150808-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu3
xserver.bootTime: Fri Oct 30 07:58:32 2015
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
product id 4397
vendor AUO
xserver.version: 2:1.17.2-1ubuntu9

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V-Mark (vertesmark) wrote on 2015-10-30:

BootLog.txt Edit (4.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (73.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgLog.txt Edit (1.3 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GconfCompiz.txt Edit (46.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (29.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmDisplayLog.txt Edit (978 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLog.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmGreeterLogOld.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LightdmLog.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (9.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (680 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
MonitorsUser.xml.txt Edit (603 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (79.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (5.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (888 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (166.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UnitySupportTest.txt Edit (633 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (30.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (25.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (6.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (11.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xserver.devices.txt Edit (670 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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V-Mark (vertesmark) wrote on 2015-10-30:

I do not know if this helps, but immediately after IDLE (screen off):
top with separated CPU-s:

top - 14:38:27 up 6:39, 3 users, load average: 0,70, 0,32, 0,21
Tasks: 200 total, 1 running, 199 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu0 : 0,7 us, 1,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 98,3 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu1 : 0,0 us, 0,7 sy, 0,0 ni, 98,7 id, 0,3 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,3 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu2 : 1,0 us, 0,0 sy, 0,0 ni, 99,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
%Cpu3 : 34,9 us, 65,1 sy, 0,0 ni, 0,0 id, 0,0 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,0 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 8211348 total, 3645980 used, 4565368 free, 108936 buffers
KiB Swap: 7844308 total, 0 used, 7844308 free. 2569852 cached Mem

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1396 mark 20 0 288756 114788 70772 S 100,8 1,4 120:45.68 compiz
1800 mark 20 0 866636 332252 78480 S 0,3 4,0 13:16.19 firefox
4454 mark 20 0 125108 34428 26224 S 0,3 0,4 0:13.64 gnome-terminal-
5850 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,3 0,0 0:04.45 kworker/0:2
6878 mark 20 0 7172 2832 2364 R 0,3 0,0 0:00.23 top
    1 root 20 0 24884 4848 3716 S 0,0 0,1 0:01.49 systemd
    2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.70 ksoftirqd/0
    5 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
    7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:08.01 rcu_sched
    8 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 rcu_bh

So compiz is occupying one of my core 100% only DURING IDLE (screen off)

Mark

summary:

- compiz HIGH CPU usage only during AFK
+ compiz HIGH CPU usage only during screen is off

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V-Mark (vertesmark) wrote on 2015-10-30: Re: compiz HIGH CPU usage only during screen is off

I have found the solution - with other hardware, but worked for me as well, so I marked as duplicate.

Due to other hardware I do not have Catalyst Center, but alternative steps

In OpenGL section sync to Vblank sign -> off
(this made my CPU workload 70%)

AND

4. Run "ccsm" (I had to install)
5. In Workarounds, enable "Force full screen redraw (buffer swap) on repaint".

... and reboot worked.

V-Mark (vertesmark) on 2015-10-30

description:

updated

V-Mark (vertesmark) on 2015-11-09

description:	updated
summary:	- compiz HIGH CPU usage only during screen is off + compiz HIGH CPU usage only during screen lock is ON

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V-Mark (vertesmark) wrote on 2015-11-09:

If I directly lock my device (Alt-Ctrl-Del -> Lock)
problem show up immediately.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-11-27:

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

Changed in compiz (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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