earthforce_1
May 3rd, 2008, 05:09 PM
I have filed a bug report about this shortly before 8.04 was released, but there has been no activity on it.
I have a P4 3.6 GHz with 2 G of RAM, and a G-Force 6600 with 512M of ram, and during the late alphas and early Hardy betas, compiz fusion ran just fine. The desktop cube worked great, effects were smooth, etc. At some point shortly before release there was an update that causes compiz fusion (or the compiz fusion icon) to start consuming all of the CPU cycles. After a while, virtually everything on the desktop becomes slow and stuttered as either the compiz or fusion-icon starts consuming most or all of the available CPU time. Restarting the desktop via the fusion icon makes it go away for a while, until something makes it jump back up. If top reports fusion-icon itself is the culprit then I have to kill its PID from a command line prompt. When the system starts running its screensaver, the problem is guaranteed to appear - after a while, the screensaver itself shows signs of CPU loading by running stuttered.
I really love the desktop cube, but it is very annoying to be constantly killing processes or restarting the desktop every 20 minutes or so. This was working perfectly just before release, and was somehow busted in a last minute update. Was the threading model changed? I am not doing anything when the CPU is burning away like that, so I can't imagine why compiz is being such a CPU hog when the desktop is idle.
I have a P4 3.6 GHz with 2 G of RAM, and a G-Force 6600 with 512M of ram, and during the late alphas and early Hardy betas, compiz fusion ran just fine. The desktop cube worked great, effects were smooth, etc. At some point shortly before release there was an update that causes compiz fusion (or the compiz fusion icon) to start consuming all of the CPU cycles. After a while, virtually everything on the desktop becomes slow and stuttered as either the compiz or fusion-icon starts consuming most or all of the available CPU time. Restarting the desktop via the fusion icon makes it go away for a while, until something makes it jump back up. If top reports fusion-icon itself is the culprit then I have to kill its PID from a command line prompt. When the system starts running its screensaver, the problem is guaranteed to appear - after a while, the screensaver itself shows signs of CPU loading by running stuttered.
I really love the desktop cube, but it is very annoying to be constantly killing processes or restarting the desktop every 20 minutes or so. This was working perfectly just before release, and was somehow busted in a last minute update. Was the threading model changed? I am not doing anything when the CPU is burning away like that, so I can't imagine why compiz is being such a CPU hog when the desktop is idle.