Bug 504790

Summary: Plasma shell and kactivitymanager using 100% CPU each
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Marcelo Bossoni <mmbossoni>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: cwo.kde, kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.3.90   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: desktop showing CPU usage

Description Marcelo Bossoni 2025-05-25 23:54:26 UTC
Created attachment 181749 [details]
desktop showing CPU usage

SUMMARY
After the update to plasma 6.4 beta plasmashell and kactivitymanager started using too much CPU

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Unfortunately can't tell, I just updated my existing install to the new 6.4 beta

OBSERVED RESULT
100% CPU usage on plasmanshell and kactivitymanagerd process

EXPECTED RESULT
Normal CPU usage for both

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.15.0-rc7-5-cachyos-rc (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7A37
System Version: 1.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 cwo 2025-05-26 07:30:14 UTC
Thank you for helping test the development releases! This is fixed in beta 2.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 504323 ***