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Commander

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Registered: 2011-02-12

Posts: 43

High CPU usage for plasmashell

Hi

Recently I noticed that plasma keeps using 30-50% CPU when doing nothing. Restarting plasma does not help just lowers the usage for a while (20-30%). Then it jumps up again and I cant even run a movie in mpv without hitching.

I think it started after the last major update but really don't know.

Launching plasma form terminal shows some errors but nothing that jumps at me.
http://codepad.org/DLbErpgC

After lurking around I think I found the culprint. After removing panels and widgets the usage dropped to 0.1-3% Slowly adding back my config i found out that Analog Clock makes the usage jump to 10% easly. Will try to report this upstream if new user config wont work.

Last edited by Commander (2016-08-16 20:36:30)