On Mon 21 Mar 2016 05:02:08 PM Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Thursday 03 March 2016 11:32:56 C. Mourad Jaber wrote: > > I'm currently experimenting an issue with plasmashell > > (plasma-framework:5.16.0-1). > > > > For an unknown reason plasmashell process start to eat 1 CPU at 100% > > and it stay stuck to consume all that power... > > I've seen this, too. A reliable way to cause it on my system is to start > VLC on the command line with a non-existing file. This provokes VLC > display a CPU-burning loop of error messages. The only way I've found to > stop this is to kill the VLC process. > > Plasmashell is not involved in this in any obvious way, but some time > afterward plasmashell itself goes to 100% CPU, too, and needs to be > forcibly restarted. > > Michael > > > [*] https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6339
I get a similar issue on my desktop. I don't know what causes it at all, I don't use vlc, I don't have a ton of notifications or any applets, and restarting plasma doesn't always fix it. It sometimes causes X to get really laggy. -- Thomas Fjellstrom [email protected]
