Created attachment 120988 [details] Task manager screenshot SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Run plasma and wait for some time. I'm not sure what triggers it. OBSERVED RESULT 10% CPU load on plasmashell EXPECTED RESULT CPU is not used while idle SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.16 KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0 Qt Version: 5.12.3 Kernel Version: 4.18.0-22-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-3225 CPU @ 3.30GHz Memory: 23,5 GiB of RAM Radeon RX 550 Series (POLARIS12, DRM 3.26.0, 4.18.0-22-generic, LLVM 7.0.0)s
I found that the problem is caused by event calendar, the agenda was constantly scrolling up and down without any reason which caused a lot of repaints and CPU usage as result.