This bg also manifests when downloading a largish (2000 messages) mailbox via Thunderbird. The progress bar in this case, at the bottom of Thunderbird results in pinning of 2 cores, 1 by Thunderbird and 1 by Compiz.
When Thunderbird was minimized the CPU load dropped off. Doing a 'strace' revealed exactly the same behaviour as outlined by marcbowes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/884387 Title: Compiz is absurdly heavy on CPU To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/884387/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
