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[Peter Goudman <pgoudman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am amazed, stunned and shocked....

I have been an Ubuntu fan and user for a long time now, as an I.T.
contractor I use it for my day to day work.  I also use the gnome
desktop always.  But since 14.04 my cpu's are running flat out...... and
I am not really pushing my system.  A quick look at top shows a process
named compiz is consuming over 300%.

Seems its related to this 'unity' stuff that has always been buggy and
will often lock up your desktop UI.

C'mon guys, I even donated a while ago, yet as we go forward with
releases we go backwards in reliability and performance.

Perhaps you need a new release pipeline?

Allowing such a bug to be present in a release is well, disgraceful and
will ruin any good name you have built up.

Unity is buggy, unreliable and deserves no place on a Linux system,
perhaps you can port it to windows where they are used to such crap.

Goodbye gnome, hello XFCE.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293384

Title:
  Compiz CPU usage dramatically increased in Ubuntu 14.04

Status in Compiz:
  Triaged
Status in compiz package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  It appears that the workload of low-level graphical operations used by
  compiz when, for example, moving windows has increased dramatically
  between Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 14.04.

  This might not be that visible when using high-end gpus, but should be
  clearly visible when using compiz on llvmpipe and to some-extent
  invalidates the approach of using compiz on top of llvmpipe as a
  fallback when no GPU is available:

  How to reproduce:
  1) Use the unity-3d desktop in Ubuntu 14.04 on top of a non-accelerating Xorg driver like "modesetting". Move windows around. Note peak and average cpu-usage.

  How to verify compiz is the culprit:
  1) copy /usr/bin/compiz from a Ubuntu 12.04 installation. Drop it in as /usr/bin/compiz on 14.04. Reboot. Perform the same window movement. CPU-usage should be substantially lower.

  This problem also affects VMs running on VMware ESX with a software-
  rendering GPU. Window movement becomes sluggish, which suggests that
  even with GPUs, compiz has increased the number of operations required
  to move windows.

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