Actually... my gnome-shell seems to spend about 25% of its time in the kernel ("system time"), and 75% in user space. That means 0.25*0.8327 --> around 20% of gnome-shell's time is spent inside the clock_gettime system call. This is quite significant actually. Thanks.
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