Just to add data to the bug report, on my 4-core (8 threads) i7 setup, with ATI graphics and google chrome, after 5 days my $ top shows:
top - 13:01:41 up 5 days, 19:52, 2 users, load average: 1.13, 1.30, 1.38 Tasks: 292 total, 2 running, 289 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 11.0%us, 5.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 83.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.5%si, 0.0%st Mem: 9200596k total, 8530880k used, 669716k free, 147956k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 3719712k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2358 chris 20 0 1676m 152m 26m S 44 1.7 1064:58 compiz 3054 chris 20 0 2014m 451m 17m S 17 5.0 248:06.63 chrome 1156 root 20 0 663m 259m 184m S 12 2.9 251:51.52 Xorg 2945 chris 20 0 957m 167m 7292 S 9 1.9 136:01.27 chrome Note how much CPU time compiz has used... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/803943 Title: compiz consuming a lot of cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/compiz/+bug/803943/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs