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budgie-wm is taking ~10% of cpu
Operating System: Solus 2017.04.18.0 Budgie version: Budgie v10.3.1-414-g7561deb1
The issue encountered I have noticed that the process budgie-wm is taking ~10% of the cpu, period. I see also that budgie-panel takes around ~5%. My machine is old, a thinkpad x200 with an Intel 2 Duo P8600 @2.401GHz, but I think that this is still a bug considering that it doesn't matters if my desktop has no opened windows (but the terminal, of course).
Steps to reproduce the issue After restarting my computer the problem is still there. I haven't tried in other machines.
A screenshot:
To solve this issue I deleted the current panel and added an empty one. I will add one by one the different applets to "debug" and see if I can plead some particular applet as guilty... I'll tell you if I've found something useful.
Edit: seems like the last panel was bugged for some weird reason... adding the same applets can't reproduce the error... I wish I could detect the problem to help in some way, but considering that everything seems nice now, I'll close the issuse for now...
Well, I reopened this issue just in case this new find can help to debug some issue.
The new breakthrough: to lower the cpu usage of budgie-wm and budgie-panel, I have to logout and login after the first login. So the issue is related with the first login for some misterious reason.
First login (using Budgie 10.4 :D)
After logout and login
Hi, I am also experiencing this issue with my Solus install.
Running on a macbook air mid 2012 Budgie Version: 10.4
Unfortunately logging out and back in does nothing to resolve mine. I just noticed the screenshot i took says 23%, it normally hovers around the 12% though.
It seems that the problem was related with one applet that was buggy. In my case this applet was Insync. So login back and forth was probably just a way to make the applet behave correctly. To solve this problem properly for me I just unninstalled Insync. Also, budgie-wm tends to be resource exaustive, so if you really want a peaceful environment, I think that (Solus) MATE is the way to go. I hope that in next iteration with Qt Budgie becames a lighter desktop environment!
Ah that would make sense, I have insync running. Let me remove that and see what happens, thanks.
On a fresh install of Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 in a VirtualBox VM, budgie-wm is taking 30%-40% of the CPU while Chromium is loading tabs (and taking <5% CPU).
If I quit Chromium, budgie-wm's CPU usa drops to low enough levels.
I seem to have determined that the high CPU from budgie-wm is particularly using Nvidia drivers, if Chrome/Chromium is set to not use the "System title bar and borders". If I tell Chrome to use the system title bar and borders, budgie-wm CPU usage remains stable, it increases slightly when there is work to do and when it is done, it returns to normal levels.
I have the same issue on Ubuntu Budgie sometimes it's also Xorg that has high CPU usage. I got a high usage when I move a window for example.
