Comment 103 for bug 985661

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sds (sds-gnu) wrote : Re: [Bug 985661] Re: High load average

Let me just repeat an off-topic comment:

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 2295 sds 20 0 1486m 52m 14m S 9 0.7 43:10.59 compiz
 2398 sds 20 0 527m 21m 5632 S 3 0.3 24:08.33 unity-panel-ser
 1340 root 20 0 281m 24m 4468 S 5 0.3 20:33.28 Xorg
 2312 sds 20 0 360m 4084 2676 S 0 0.1 11:11.56 pulseaudio
 2400 sds 20 0 617m 5348 2084 S 1 0.1 8:43.45 hud-service
 2267 sds 20 0 27976 2852 612 S 1 0.0 6:23.61 dbus-daemon
 6551 sds 20 0 360m 66m 7868 S 1 0.8 6:04.17 emacs

Consuming more TIME/CPU than the editor is an outrage.

I understand X & pulseaudio, but none of the others (compiz, unity, hud,
dbus) have any right to be so resource hungry.

Is there already a bug where I can vent my frustration with this? :-)

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