compiz high CPU usage when screen powered off
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When my screen powers off after 5 minutes of inactivity compiz starts consuming a large amount of CPU time (resulting in fans running harder - hence I noticed the issue).
Stops as soon as I unlock - output from top indicates compiz is consuming alot of CPU time:
top - 18:29:13 up 10:12, 0 users, load average: 0.19, 0.39, 0.75
Tasks: 242 total, 1 running, 239 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie
Cpu(s): 4.5%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 93.3%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3980564k total, 3223868k used, 756696k free, 177728k buffers
Swap: 4124668k total, 0k used, 4124668k free, 1084480k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
13031 jamespag 20 0 1519m 105m 52m S 26 2.7 323:22.61 compiz 12796 root 20 0 568m 181m 141m S 9 4.7 4:35.38 Xorg
13469 jamespag 20 0 981m 277m 45m S 3 7.1 3:35.75 firefox 13095 jamespag 20 0 397m 11m 7584 S 2 0.3 0:02.18 bamfdaemon
13797 jamespag 20 0 645m 38m 18m S 2 1.0 0:17.97 /usr/bin/termin 13006 jamespag 20 0 27948 3488 628 S 1 0.1 0:04.06 dbus-daemon
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sat Mar 24 18:25:21 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
blcr, 0.8.2: added
fglrx, 8.960, 3.2.0-20-generic, x86_64: installed
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1558
PackageArchitec
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/24/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A07
dmi.board.name: 0874P6
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A07
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Studio 1558
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.2-0ubuntu1
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version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.