Daniel, an alternative route to go would be to look up the number of wakeups the Compiz is causing rather than raw CPU usage. Similar to the output from powertop.
When you mentioned installing the debug symbols did you mean a compiz-debug package in the repositories or something more? Simon -- 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