just got this dock and its just not going to work out if it stays this way. I only connected one extra monitor and two external hard drives. I have a new Inspiron 5570 i7 with 12 gigs of ram and a pci 512 m2 drive. I am running 18.04 fresh install of Kubuntu. I know its not the system or peripherals slowing things down... Its your product. Are you going to solve this problem or not. I will have to return it if there is no response to this.

Same issue here! Ubuntu 18.04 on xps13

Same issue here. Video is unbearably choppy. I am showing 4k@60hz on my external display, but displaylinkmanager service is consuming a minimum of 100% cpu while any drawing is going on. Even basic 1080p youtube video is too choppy to watch.
Anyone from Displaylink goona chime in here and hopefully find us a fix? Love the dock itself. Hate to have to return it.

Same issue here. Video is unbearably choppy. I am showing 4k@60hz on my external display, but displaylinkmanager service is consuming a minimum of 100% cpu while any drawing is going on. Even basic 1080p youtube video is too choppy to watch.
Anyone from Displaylink goona chime in here and hopefully find us a fix? Love the dock itself. Hate to have to return it.

CPU utilization of DisplayLink on Linux strongly depends on particular application that is used. I noticed heavy CPU usage when compiz (compositor) is used comparing to when it's not. Also using remote Xorg display powered by DL device (export DISPLAY=10.0.0.2:0 on remote machine, when 10.0.0.2 machine is using DL) results in insane CPU load. There's a lot of cases that make DL display struggle significantly. However I think it's related to number of draw operations issues by certain software, comparing to others.

Same on HP Elitebook 1030 G2 x360 running Ubuntu 17.10, Targus ACP78US dock and Dell U3415W Monitor. The CPU utilization by DisplayLink Manager is consistently between 40% and 110%. Is this normal?

Tested with the latest Ubuntu 17.10, a Dell XPS13 9360, a Dell dock D3100 and 2 iiyama prolite screens, the driver works pretty fine but... after some niutes, it take too much CPU resources ! It's over 150%... CPU fans gonna be crazy and CPU temp reach 80° very quickly...
As a consequence, unfortunetly, I just cannot use the displaylink dock :(

On my side, I can try to investigate more deeply if needed,

Thanks

I have the same issue. I'm using Dell Latitude 7280 connecting to Dell universal dock D6000, with two Dell monitors. The OS is Ubuntu 16.04.3 with kernel 4.10.0-35. The CPU goes very high and stays around 30% when idle. When resuming from sleep it keeps 100+% and don't go down even when idle.

It eats a lot of my CPU too on Fedora KDE. Normally 40-50%, but when I watch youtube, more than 100%.

Lots of people reporting very high cpu usage on Linux Ubuntu. I have got the same problem (but I can not report the bug, because I have no access to your support forum, neither I can not contact you directly, because the contact forms are not working...).

Example configuration:
OS info: Linux-3.16.0-77-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-14.04-trusty
CPU info: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz Cache: 3072 KB Cores: 2
Installed RAM: 8097920 kB
DL driver version: 1.3.52
Hardware: ACER Aspire v3-371
Connected Devices on the docking station: USB-Mouse, USB-Keyboard, HDMI-Monitor (1920x1080), DVI-Monitor (1920x1080), RJ-45 Network Cable
CPU-Usage: 15-60%

Removing the DVI monitor connection drops the cpu usage down to 0.7% (The system crashed after disconnecting the cable, but that's another bug, I guess).

Please fix this bug. Thanks.