perberos/Mate-Desktop-Environment — Issue #91: marco won't die (and causes high CPU load) after compiz --replace
Author: benpicco
Created: 2012-01-17 23:00:06+00:00
State: open

* start a normal mate session
* compiz --replace
* CPU usage goes up (about 67% on each core here), but htop can't assign it to any process

ps aux still shows a marco process

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
benpicco 2108 0.0 0.5 169044 7164 ? Sl 23:44 0:00 marco

* killall -KILL marco -> everything back to normal, compiz runs smoothly

But this is only true for the first marco, if you then do a marco --replace and a compiz --replace, marco doesn't survive and there are no signs of unusual CPU load. It has been reported that the same is true for emerald.