I'm not sure compiz is to blame here. On my system (core i3 / ati radeon / 64bit ubuntu) the load avarage is high (see below) even when runnign other window managers / desktops, e.g. gnome-shell (including classic and without acceleration), unity-2d, xfce.
I logged in at the text cosole and stopped X (service lightdm stop) and the load dropped to 0.03. Just starting X (/usr/bin/X) made the load go to 0.1 - 0.17. Starting lightdm got it to 0.3 - 0.4 and it was the same with xdm as well. I tried this with fglrx, fglrx-updates, and without any of them. The results were generally the same. So I think X.org is the culprit. P.S. Strangely, it seems that neither the CPU nor the disk usage is high when these loads occur. P.P.S. Another strange thing, that I've noticed is, that if the display goes blank after some time of inactivity the CPU usage is gets higher and just waking it up brings the CPU to previous levels. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/985661 Title: High load average To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xubuntu-desktop/+bug/985661/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
