Bug 545242

Summary:	gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.14.4 uses more than 200% of CPU on i7 system
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Juergen Rose <rose>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Juergen Rose 2015-04-01 15:53:04 UTC

'top' shows now:

top - 17:48:55 up 18:43,  4 users,  load average: 1.49, 2.08, 2.74
Tasks: 269 total,   3 running, 266 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 31.3 us,  3.3 sy,  0.0 ni, 65.4 id,  0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem :  7860496 total,  4597768 free,  2174860 used,  1087868 buff/cache
KiB Swap: 12582908 total, 12127952 free,   454956 used.  5582128 avail Mem 

  PID USER    PR NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 4978 rose    20  0 2415460 652552  42544 R 198.0  8.3 281:51.13 gnome-shell
 4575 rose    20  0  690460  81184  53328 S  25.6  1.0  10:06.76 guvcview
 4626 root    20  0  539072 154704  12024 R  20.6  2.0  39:40.70 X
 5620 rose    20  0 1560824 478676  44384 S  17.9  6.1  85:30.06 firefox
 5606 rose    20  0   71960   8436   7492 S  15.3  0.1   1:11.29 xclock_milli
 5704 rose    20  0  741792  64396   9016 S   2.3  0.8  13:52.66 plugin-containe
14273 rose    20  0  284056  10436   7008 S   1.0  0.1   2:59.48 gkrellm
 5219 rose    20  0  515364  28064  13288 S   0.7  0.4   0:58.00 gnome-terminal-

sometimes 'top' shows even more than 230% for gnome-shell. Is this to expect?

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2015-04-02 12:51:57 UTC

Try on a new created user account and with a new home. Also disable all shell extensions