As reported upstream: xfwm4 performance worsens gradually over some hours to a steady CPU consumption of 20-30%. It doesn't hang on my laptop but the sluggishness is quite noticeable. Disabling compositing seems to work around it. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.3.89 (python 3.6.10-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.30-r8, 5.4.28-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.28-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4702MQ_CPU_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: 16110340 total, 11771836 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16341308 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:38:30 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 797cc424be761d3de79e5e49e60d60c25ce623c7 sh bash 4.4_p23-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.33.1 p2) 2.33.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p23-r1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.17-r2::gentoo, 3.6.10-r1::gentoo, 3.7.7-r1::gentoo, 3.8.2-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.16.5::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.33.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 9.3.0::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.2.1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.4::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.30-r8::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /var/db/repos/gentoo sync-type: git sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git priority: -1000 localrepo location: /var/db/repos/overlay/localrepo masters: gentoo priority: 10 jorgicio location: /var/lib/layman/jorgicio sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/jorgicio/jorgicio-gentoo.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 lmiphay location: /var/lib/layman/lmiphay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/user/lmiphay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 nest location: /var/lib/layman/nest sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/SpiderX/portage-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 Installed sets: @audio, @dev, @emacs, @emul, @fonts, @gkrellm, @graphix, @net, @office, @utilz, @video, @web, @webdev, @xfce ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=haswell -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php7.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php7.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php7.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php7.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php7.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=haswell -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-march=haswell -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-march=haswell -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" INSTALL_MASK="/usr/lib/systemd/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="alsa amd64 berkdb bittorrent bluetooth btrfs bzip2 calendar caps cddb cdparanoia cli consolekit corefonts crypt cups curl cvs dbus device-mapper djvu dri dvd ebook emacs enchant fam fbcon fortran fpm gdbm git glamor gnome-keyring gnutls gpm graphicsmagick gtk3 gtkstyle h323 hddtemp http hunspell iconv icu id3tag imagemagick introspection jabber jpeg kpathsea ladspa laptop latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate libtirpc lm_sensors lto mng mp3 mplayer musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ntfs ntfsprogs objc objc++ ogg openmp openvg opus pam pcre pgo png policykit postscript ppds python3 readline rtmp scanner sdl seamonkey seccomp split-usr sql sqlite sqlitessh ssl system-cairo system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-sqlite tcpd threads tordns truetype udisks unicode v4l2 video vlc vorbis wavpack xattr xcb xcomposite xetex xfce xfs xkb xmp xorg xvfb zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse libinput" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-3 php7-4" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24 ruby25" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2 epkowa hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= xfce-base/xfwm4-4.14.0-r1::gentoo was built with the following: USE="xcomposite xpresent -opengl -startup-notification" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
Please let us know if upstream bug comes to any conclusion.
It's hard to confirm that the performance degradations are the same issue, but there's a probable fix on the upstream bug that was released in the development version xfwm4 4.15.1 . It's a 1-line fix if anyone wants to give it a try: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/commit/e6a32cf7d789ca3058f50fd630de8e518d310cf8
Fixed by upstream. Affected versions no longer in ::gentoo.
