Bug 381817

Summary: Very high and constant CPU usage of plasmashell
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Jan Pavlicek <jan.pavlicek>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: bhush94, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.10.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Htop screenshot

Description Jan Pavlicek 2017-06-30 09:11:26 UTC
Created attachment 106382 [details]
Htop screenshot

Since a recent update (unfortunately I don't remember the exact version, probably 5.10.2), plasma started using very hight amount of CPU (htop shows around 80% o a quad core machine). At first, simply restarting plasma corrected the problem, but now the CPU usage lingers even after restarting. It doesn't matter what applications are open (even if none), it starts right after boot. 

I don't use any measuring widgets, my only widgets are two panels with task manager, systray and application menu. I use two monitors, one being external and one laptop screen (hence the two panels).

I realize there is several similar bugs, but since this started happening recently and it has slightly different behaviour than the other reports, I chose to file a new bug.

Also, please let me know what additional info or commands output I might provide, I will try to be as much assistance as possible.
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2017-06-30 12:20:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 378010 ***