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[Bug 1572801] Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10

 

Although the title refers to Unity specifically, I'm afraid I have to
submit a "me too" for Xubuntu 16.04. Coming from 14.04 I definitely have
to report that the "light, non-fat" flavour became more heavy footed.
We've some legacy systems that now use significantly more CPU and RAM
(50% of 1.5G, where it was ~10%), often resulting in slower, or even no
function, e.g. mplayer frame dropping, dropping out of sync, dropping
subs, or just plainly failing to play video (resolution > screen size)
that was perfectly fine on 14.04.

Addressing the elephant in the room: since this has been reported since
the 16.04 roll out in April 2016 by multiple people, on various systems
and flavours, how to address this and what activity is there on this?

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Title:
  Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop uses much more ram than Ubuntu 15.10

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 16.04 64bit ISO number 20160420.1
  unity version 7.4.0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
  Ubuntu 16.04 64bit ram usage has increase dramatically over Ubuntu 15.10
  Ubuntu 16.04 ram roughly 1 GB Ubuntu15.10 can be tuned to 420, 450 MB
  Ubuntu 16.04 with unity uses 1GB whereas Kubuntu 16.04 is using 420MB live usb

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: unity 7.4.0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity_support_test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
  CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Apr 21 01:44:22 2016
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: xenial
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  GraphicsCard:
   Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0412] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [1043:8534]
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'org.compiz.core' b'outputs' b"['1920x1080+0+0']"
   b'org.compiz.core' b'active-plugins' b"['core', 'composite', 'opengl', 'place', 'regex', 'resize', 'session', 'snap', 'vpswitch', 'wall', 'animation', 'commands', 'compiztoolbox', 'copytex', 'fade', 'grid', 'imgpng', 'mousepoll', 'move', 'scale', 'unitymtgrabhandles', 'workarounds', 'expo', 'ezoom', 'unityshell']"
   b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
   b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'scaling-factor' b'uint32 1'
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  MachineType: ASUS All Series
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper quiet splash --- cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 06/03/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 2004
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: Z87-PLUS
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2004:bd06/03/2014:svnASUS:pnAllSeries:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnZ87-PLUS:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: All Series
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUS
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.12.2+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.67-1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 11.2.0-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.0-1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-1build2
  xserver.bootTime: Thu Apr 21 01:37:17 2016
  xserver.configfile: default
  xserver.errors:
   
  xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
  xserver.outputs:
   
  xserver.version: 2:1.18.3-1ubuntu2

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