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#1 2017-08-13 05:27:43
- L1ghtmareI
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- Registered: 2014-08-29
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[SOLVED]Plasmashell high CPU usage on launching Steam
Hello everyone.
As far as the general issue of plasmashell hogging CPU there's a long-running debate, however this case seems different altogether in character. I've been aware for a long time that launching steam/steam apps raised plasmashell's CPU % so that restarting it became a part of my launch routine. However, it hasn't occurred to me until recently that this was the ONLY instance in which I could observe the rise.
The phenomenon is as follows: while usually plasmashell sits at no more than 3% CPU, upon launching Steam it skyrockets to up to 50% and doesn't decline even after closing all related windows, accompanied by the following entries in the output (the QXcbConnection errors appear throughout the logs for any system activity BTW):
trying to show an empty dialog
Error contacting the daemon!
/home/alex/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/alex/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is disabled by the user
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 3485, resource id: 10485768, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 3585, resource id: 31457286, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 3645, resource id: 10485768, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 3763, resource id: 44040198, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3
QXcbConnection: XCB error: 2 (BadValue), sequence: 3938, resource id: 10485768, major code: 142 (Unknown), minor code: 3Upon restarting plasmashell the issue can be replicated by creating a Steam window (even without exiting Steam).
It should be noted that the relation between Steam and Plasma on my system is a troubled one, for instance, .desktop entry creation fails (i'm not alone on this) and there is no systray icon. Wine Steam instances do fine in that regard.
My system: 4.12.4-1-ARCH, Plasma 5.10.4.
I would appreciate your advice on how to collect more relevant information on this problem and ultimately solve it.
Last edited by L1ghtmareI (2017-08-17 13:11:54)
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#2 2017-08-13 09:12:10
- V1del
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- Registered: 2012-10-16
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Re: [SOLVED]Plasmashell high CPU usage on launching Steam
Can't reproduce. What graphics chip are you using? Which compositor do you have active?
L1ghtmareI wrote:
It should be noted that the relation between Steam and Plasma on my system is a troubled one, for instance, .desktop entry creation fails (i'm not alone on this) and there is no systray icon. Wine Steam instances do fine in that regard.
This is also strange, do you have any outdated packages installed? Steam uses libappindicator which should be no problem for KDE's systray. Did you ever install an alternative systray that is currently overriding the default?
What does
pacman -Qm
qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin org.kde.KWin.supportInformation
qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell org.kde.PlasmaShell.dumpCurrentLayoutJS give?
Last edited by V1del (2017-08-13 09:16:26)
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#3 2017-08-13 22:09:20
- L1ghtmareI
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- Registered: 2014-08-29
- Posts: 96
Re: [SOLVED]Plasmashell high CPU usage on launching Steam
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 660/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.59The systray icon thing is a Steam bug, the suggested workaround works for me, so it's a separate issue.
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plasma.loadSerializedLayout(layout);Edit: installing libappindicator-gtk2 appears to have fixed the issue. Will try more usage scenarios to see if it's gone for good.
Edit 2: the solution isn't installing the package itself (it only presents dysfunctional Steam tray icon), but launching with
env STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 steamas described here.
Last edited by L1ghtmareI (2017-08-17 13:11:39)
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