Created attachment 172128 [details] iGPU usage comparisson between panel visible and hidden SUMMARY CPU and GPU usage increase when panel is hidden STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Boot up/wake up system 2. Right click on panel, go to panel configuration 3. Set visibility to auto hide 4. See that the panel is hidden 5. Wait a minute on wayland, or a second if using X11 OBSERVED RESULT plasmashell and kwin start using CPU (about 8% max) and GPU (0-3 to 250-350MHz). This stops when the panel is raised, then continues when hidden. EXPECTED RESULT System should idle just like when the panel is always visible SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I've once managed to make the consumption stop by opening a bunch of windows and the application launcher and closing all of them afterwards, then the system idles just fine, but it resumes when rebooting or waking up from sleep. It also stops shortly when getting a notification, and resumes afterwards.
Cannot reproduce on my system (10th gen Intel HD620 iGPU). Feels like a driver bug, maybe? Moving to KWin for further investigation.
This issue is something I've been experiencing since KDE Plasma 5.27 and again with 6.0 and 6.1 and I've gone from Arch Linux to Gentoo. Only recently on Gentoo did I find somewhat a fix but here's my experience The KDE panel setting Visibility set to "Always visible", Opacity set to "Adaptive", changed to "Opaque" and then changed to "Translucent", the plasmashell usage issue is not there for me When I change the Visibility to "Auto hide", regardless of the Opacity setting, the plasmashell issue is there for me. When my mouse cursor is over the KDE panel, the usage drops to 0-2%~ During this high usage with the CPU (10-30%~), I also see alot of GPU usage ( using amdgpu_top ) I'm using a Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780M
(In reply to sinatosk from comment #2) > This issue is something I've been experiencing since KDE Plasma 5.27 and > again with 6.0 and 6.1 and I've gone from Arch Linux to Gentoo. Only > recently on Gentoo did I find somewhat a fix but here's my experience > > The KDE panel setting Visibility set to "Always visible", Opacity set to > "Adaptive", changed to "Opaque" and then changed to "Translucent", the > plasmashell usage issue is not there for me > > When I change the Visibility to "Auto hide", regardless of the Opacity > setting, the plasmashell issue is there for me. When my mouse cursor is over > the KDE panel, the usage drops to 0-2%~ > > During this high usage with the CPU (10-30%~), I also see alot of GPU usage > ( using amdgpu_top ) > > I'm using a Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780M I forgot to mention I'm using KDE Plasma 6.1.4 with Wayland
I have the same issue on my system as well. Have been looking for a fix for quite long, and setting panel to always visible seems to work, atleast for now. Here's my system information for reference: KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.8-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform/Driver: Wayland/i915 (Intel Iris Graphics AdlerLake-P) OS: EndeavourOS Observed Result: - On Panel AutoHide + Adaptive Opacity While having any window open, GPU usage spikes upto 40-50%. When switching to overview view, it seems to decrease back to 1-2%. - After Panel Always Visible + Full Opaque All windows use 1-2% GPU on Idle
For those affected, is this reproducible on a new clean user account with no customizations (except for making the default panel auto-hide)?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > For those affected, is this reproducible on a new clean user account with no > customizations (except for making the default panel auto-hide)? Yes kinfo on Framework Laptop 16 Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.15 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.10-gentoo-dist-gcc-znver4 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics Memory: 27.2 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon 780M
Thanks. Then this is Bug 487895. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 487895 ***