Package: xfwm4
Version: 4.14.0-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

xfwm4 process after 10-15 days of uptime gradually starts to consume
significant amounts of CPU:

- up to 15-18% of a CPU core in completely idle state
- up to 80-100% of a CPU core when switching between windows with alt-tab

For reference, immediately after launch the process consumes between
0.7% and 1% of a CPU core when idle.

Additionally, opengl-based applications are also negatively affected
(lower framerate and increased CPU load) by xfwm4 when it is in such
laggy state.

I am using Intel HD630 GPU, I have not tried to reproduce this on
other hardware, however I never had this problem in xfce 4.12 or
before.

What I have tried:

- changing vblank mode of xfwm4: has no effect - the bug manifests
with all vblank modes
- changing xorg driver: has no effect - the bug manifests both with
'intel' and 'modesetting' drivers
- changing TearFree option of 'intel' xorg driver on/off: no effect -
the bug manifests regardless of the state of this setting
- restarting xfwm periodically (menu -> run -> xfwm4 --replace) - this
fixes the problem until it surfaces again after the same period of
time

This is a very significant regression compared to xfwm in xfce 4.12.

The upstream has not been able to fix this during last 8 months:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15963

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xfwm4 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.29-7
ii  libcairo2                 1.16.0-4
ii  libepoxy0                 1.5.4-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.40.0+dfsg-2
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.62.4-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.24.13-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.4-8
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.42.4-8
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-6
ii  libwnck-3-0               3.32.0-1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.8-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.5-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.5-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii  libxfce4ui-2-0            4.14.1-1+b1
ii  libxfce4util7             4.14.0-1
ii  libxfconf-0-3             4.14.1-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxi6                    2:1.7.9-1
ii  libxinerama1              2:1.1.4-2
ii  libxpresent1              1.0.0-2+b10
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.5.1-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1

Versions of packages xfwm4 recommends:
ii  librsvg2-common  2.46.4-1

Versions of packages xfwm4 suggests:
ii  xfce4  4.14

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