Bug 347148

Summary:	Network Monitor widget causes high CPU load
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Kien Truong <duckientruong>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	ben, bhush94, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.3.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Kien Truong 2015-05-04 10:36:51 UTC

Adding a Network Monitor widget to the desktop makes plasmashell CPU's usage steadily increase and it shortly reaches 100 %.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a Network Monitor widget to the desktop
2. Do something that include network usage, like web browsing, etc...
3. Monitor the CPU usage

Actual Results:  
CPU usage of plasmashell steadily increases to 100%

Expected Results:  
Plasmashell CPU usage remains low, or at least stay at constant level.

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-05-04 15:43:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 345696 ***

Comment 2 ben van 't ende 2015-10-12 12:11:31 UTC

Just to confirm thay I had the same problem with Plasma Shell hitting 138%. Removing the widget solved the highload.