Hi, I think I might have the same bug, even though I'm using an Acer Aspire 5685 WLMi Laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo and a Nvidia GeForce Go 7600. (Kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic, arch: x86_64, nvidia-driver: nvidia- glx-185)
I also noticed high kwin cpu usage, then searched for it and disabled the "Use Vsync" option in System Settings / Look & Feel / Desktop / Desktop Effects / Advanced [tab]. After this my cpu usage normally stays pretty low. Nevertheless it sometimes (every 10 minutes) happens that kwin suddenly decides to take up 100 % cpu time (of one core). I can immediately fix that problem by toggling composite with [ALT]+[SHIFT]+[F12] ("switching it off and on again"). I decided to investigate the problem a bit further and did an strace of kwin for a couple of seconds and also an lsof | grep kwin (see attachment). It seems as if kwin is stuck polling some file descriptor (in this fd9, which seems to be a unix socket (lsof)). If you have any questions or ideas how i can provide more information, let me know. ** Attachment added: "kwin_strace" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35944181/kwin_strace -- kwin uses way too much CPU when there's no activity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452096 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp