I've noticed the same issue with all extensions disabled. It seems very correlated with changes on the screen, to include moving the mouse. I've watched 'top' over an SSH connection to the system running gnome. If I have just a terminal window open any updates in that window cause gnome- shell CPU to jump to 7-9% CPU for a couple seconds (according to top which is updating every second on a remote shell). The updates and activities I've tested so far that seem to show this behavior are:
- moving the mouse around on the screen - typing any amount of text in the open terminal window - having top running in the open terminal window. I'm guessing there is something in gnome-shell copying the screen to a buffer, and, after some period of inactivity it decreases its rate of copying... perhaps? -- 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/1773959 Title: High CPU usage by gnome-shell when only running gnome-terminal Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Even when doing nothing but displaying a terminal screen with top running gnome-shell uses 10% of a CPU. That seems excessive. I disabled all extensions to try and make the test fair. Enabling the system monitor extension increases the load to 13-14%. It seems that the gnome-shell screen painting is highly CPU consuming even if screen updates are infrequent (1 a second for all these cases). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue May 29 11:38:05 2018 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-27 (578 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-19 (9 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1773959/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
