gnome-shell; High CPU Usage

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gnome-shell; High CPU Usage

asked 2012-10-25 04:27:07 +0000

Chandies
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updated 2015-06-02 08:25:09 +0000

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This weekend I migrated to a new laptop, an Acer Aspire V3-551-8887 (4gb RAM, AMD A8-4500m quad core). With a new laptop, I thought I'd make the jump to Fedora 17 (F16 was on my previous laptop).

All worked well after the DVD install and applying all pending updates, but I notice that both Top and System Monitor show abnormally high CPU usage, 100 - 150%, or more.

The process is tagged as gnome-shell, but I am not very experienced at looking u'under-the-hood' in linux to get further information.

Any ideas? I'm sure there's more information I can give you, I just don't what would be needed or how to obtain it, yet.

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answered 2015-03-25 17:19:47 +0000

Joris
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I've had this problem as well. My solution was to disable the extention "Background Logo", which draws the fedora logo on top of your background.

My CPU usage is back to 2% right now.

To disable the extention: Install gnome-tweak-tool

sudo yum install gnome-tweak-tool

Start the tweak tool and disable the extention "Background Logo" in the overview "Extentions"

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This did it for me! Thanks so much. And it's not even removable via the panel, so I could only disable it. Weak.

Daniel Quinn ( 2015-04-09 10:25:25 +0000 )edit

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answered 2013-03-02 09:44:36 +0000

Bucic

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You should re-check it with system freshly booted and no additional programs fired up to make sure Gnome Shell isn't forced to do some heavy redrawing on some windows (e.g. few opened video players). If the situation still persists you should submit a bug report
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
and/or
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Make sure to go through the following article first
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugsandfeature_requests

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answered 2016-02-03 05:30:00 +0000

bodi
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My laptop (Fedora 23) had a similar problem, but I realised that it only appeared when connected to a secondary screen. The solution was via “Settings” → “Displays” → “Arrange Combined Displays” to readjust the relative positioning of the screen areas.

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