Forgive me, but what method did you use to profile the resource usage of gnome-shell? I would like to see if the root cause you discovered matches what affects my system.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1750197 Title: Activities overview causes heavy CPU spikes in Wayland & Xorg Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Ubuntu Release: 17.10 and 18.04 gnome-shell version: 3.26.2 System Theme: CommuniTheme Beta Upon navigating through various areas of the system, GUI animations are very stuttery. This heavily affects the CPU usage of my device. For instance, opening the shell app drawer displays a very janky animation, and my CPU will spike to nearly 85% for each open/close. This happens regardless of using XOrg or Wayland; however Wayland appears to have an overall lower impact on resource usage. The CPU in this laptop isn't the greatest (being a 2014 Celeron), but this is noticeably more sluggish compared to previous releases like 16.04 and 16.10. This same issue is still existent, but somewhat less noticeable on my other i5-6400 (GTX 1050) machine. Also, emulating this release in a VM with 2 CPUS and 4096MB of RAM renders it unresponsive for 3-5 seconds after opening/closing the app drawer. Please do not hesitate to follow up with requests for more info, as I will be happy to help. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-32.35-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu-communitheme:ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Feb 17 19:13:00 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-17 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1750197/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
