Comment 18 for bug 803943

Confirmed. My first contact with unity after an upgrade to Oneiric.

When doing absolutely nothing (just a terminal running top) I get

compiz ~9% cpu

then another

5% goes away with unity-panel-service
4% with the dbus daemons
3% for the indicator multiload

(yes, the system is not really idle, I have a cpu load applet!)

This sounds weird to me and certainly not ok. Why an applet updating every second should end up making the system burn about 20% of its cpu resources?