Last Sunday, after updating Plasma to the last git-master(openSUSE Krypton repo 22-08-14), I noticed unusual and continuous CPU(And probably also GPU) usage by Plasmashell and Kwin_wayland processes in the Wayland session, And in the X11 session, in addition to them, the Xorg-bin process is also involved, So that even when just running Top through Konsole, in Wayland session, CPU usage of Plasmashell and Kwin_wayland processes is about 7-8%, and in X11 session, CPU usage of Plasmashell and Kwin_x11 and Xorg-bin processes is about 10-12%, And it also seems that something constantly and without reason render/draw/repaint ing in the background, because seems that "kworker/u9:1+i915_flip" process is also involved. Also, I had not seen this problem before the last update. System: Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 5.19.1-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.80 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220816 CPU: Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo T6670 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn Yorkfield rev: A cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 2 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 1196 min/max: 1200/2201 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1196 2: 1196 bogomips: 8770 Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx Graphics: Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Sony driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen5 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: DP-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2a42 Device-2: Ricoh Sony Vaio Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-2:2 chip-ID: 05ca:18b3 Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: intel gpu: i915 display-ID: 0 Monitor-1: LVDS-1 res: 1280x800 size: N/A OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Mobile Intel GM45 Express (CTG) v: 2.1 Mesa 22.3.0-devel-git-5fd8ae15 direct render: Yes "qdbus-qt5 org.kde.KWin /KWin supportInformation" Output: https://pastebin.com/BZRnrVHp
After disabling and re-enabling different things to try to find the problem reason, It seems that this problem is related to the Panel, because when setting the Panel-Visibility option to Auto_Hide, and the Panel is in hidden mode, CPU usage back to normal, and when the Panel is visible, the problem is starting again; Also when the Panel-Visibilty option seted to Always-Visible and the applicattion(Konsole) window be FullScreen, It has no effect on the problem. Also, this problem is probably(I'm not entirely sure) related to the changes between August 9 and 15 because after updated Plasma on August 10(openSUSE Krypton repo 22-08-09) I did not notice to this problem but after updated Plasma on August 14(openSUSE Krypton repo 22-08-14) I noticed to the problem.
I noticed this as well and it's just been fixed as of today, with https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/plasma-framework/-/commit/3ac9fc30c766c3ed57f0d4f19fb2a7d046b46118.