** Summary changed: - (hardy, xorg, compiz) xorg becoming temporarily unresponsive after latest compiz upgrade + (Ubuntu Hardy, Xorg, Firefox) xorg using CPU heavily while visiting blogger.com with Firefox
** Description changed: - After today's compiz upgrade, Xorg soon (maybe a few seconds / one + Xorg CPU usage goes to somewhere between 50% and 90%, reducing system responsiveness to the point of unusability. + System: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 2 (upgraded from A.1) with IA32 1.8 GHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, >4-year-old laptop. + Graphics: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] - uses free 'nv' driver w/o Compiz (couldn't get nvidia driver to work yet because of lacking Xorg.conf). + + * Start Ubuntu and Gnome. + * Start Firefox. + * (Watch using 'top'.) + * Go to https://www.blogger.com/start with Firefox. + + Expected: All things to remain normally responsive. + + Just to understand the first comments, here's the original description: + (After today's compiz upgrade, Xorg soon (maybe a few seconds / one minute later) caused around 70% CPU usage and applications to become annoyingly sluggish for about 20 seconds. So far I just restarted the X server with no visible change. The Xorg process abuses my CPU as soon - as I begin to work with + as I begin to work with) ** Tags added: firefox hardy xorg ** Description changed: - Xorg CPU usage goes to somewhere between 50% and 90%, reducing system responsiveness to the point of unusability. - System: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 2 (upgraded from A.1) with IA32 1.8 GHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, >4-year-old laptop. - Graphics: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] - uses free 'nv' driver w/o Compiz (couldn't get nvidia driver to work yet because of lacking Xorg.conf). + By following the following steps, Xorg CPU usage goes to somewhere + between 50% and 90%, reducing system responsiveness to the point of + unusability. * Start Ubuntu and Gnome. * Start Firefox. * (Watch using 'top'.) * Go to https://www.blogger.com/start with Firefox. - Expected: All things to remain normally responsive. + Expected: The system to remain usably responsive. - Just to understand the first comments, here's the original description: - (After today's compiz upgrade, Xorg soon (maybe a few seconds / one - minute later) caused around 70% CPU usage and applications to become - annoyingly sluggish for about 20 seconds. So far I just restarted the X - server with no visible change. The Xorg process abuses my CPU as soon - as I begin to work with) + Workaround: Open a new tab in Firefox or close the tab with blogger.com. + + System: Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 2 (upgraded from A.1) with IA32 1.8 GHz CPU, + 384 MB RAM, >4-year-old laptop. + + Graphics: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go 32M] - uses free 'nv' + driver w/o Compiz (couldn't get nvidia driver to work yet because of + lacking Xorg.conf). -- (Ubuntu Hardy, Xorg, Firefox) xorg using CPU heavily while visiting blogger.com with Firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180055 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
