Bug 364518

Summary:	Plasmashell takes up to 50% CPU
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Tom Kijas <t.kijas>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bhush94, plasma-bugs, rpedrica
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.6.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Image of process usage

Description Tom Kijas 2016-06-19 19:26:35 UTC

Plasmashell takes up to 50% CPU
OS is slow

Reproducible: Didn't try


Actual Results:  
Plasmashell takes up to 50% CPU

Comment 1 Robby Pedrica 2016-07-29 19:21:46 UTC

Created attachment 100379 [details]
Image of process usage

Comment 2 Robby Pedrica 2016-07-29 19:25:34 UTC

I've had very high plasmashell CPU usage since Plasma 5.6 ( continues in 5.7 ) - the usage seems directly related to the number of system tray icons active. I've attached a screen-shot indicating load ave and process CPU and you can see that it is very high.

As I exit apps that have icons in the systray, the CPU consumption of the plasmashell process comes down. Exiting Chrome, Amarok, ownCloud and KeepAssX for eg. drops the above consumption from ave 60% to 25%.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2016-08-02 21:17:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 356479 ***