On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 02:35:01PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > It looks like compiz is running amok and using 100% CPU. That might > mean that it is using 100% of one of eight threads, or maybe using > all of one core. The kernel scheduler will try to keep it on one core. Migrating it from one core to another is inefficient, in that it has hot memory in the L1 cache which is local to a core. Moving it means it needs to rebuild that. http://www.compiz.org/ tells you more about what compiz is. It might be enough to log out your desktop session and log in again, so it starts a new desktop. Andrew