I had that issue too. I can certainly confirm that compiz is doing a lot fo polling. I learned it through
sudo strace -p ${compizPid} A related bug revealed by 'sudo strace -p ..' is that it hangs my box (Ubuntu 12.04) in two cases of three. Not fun. -- 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-core/+bug/803943/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs