[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-22 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1849142 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1849142 OK let's call this a duplicate of bug 1849142. Yes it is weird that would be mouse-related... Bug 1848951 is still open to cover the high CPU in Xorg. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 184914

[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-22 Thread Pavils Jurjans
Did that, now it's much better. Although I was deferring from system updates, reluctant to restart, so this was not a clean test. Moving mouse quickly still makes the Xorg process consume signifficant CPU% (up to 25%), but gnome-shell doesn't get near to the level it used to consume. It's a weird

[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-21 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Thanks for all that. It appears the main CPU hog here is bug 1849142, which has a fix coming soon. So to exclude that bug and see if it is the main problem, please: 1. Open the Extensions app 2. Disable 'Ubuntu AppIndicators' 3. Reboot. 4. If the problem happens after that then please agai

[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-21 Thread Pavils Jurjans
Whoa, there's a lot of info in those apport files. I hope those are relevant. I don't use any fancy Gnome shell extensions. Here's an output of `ls /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/`: desktop-icons@csoriano ubuntu-appindicat...@ubuntu.com ubuntu- d...@ubuntu.com That's about it. It's hard t

[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-21 Thread Pavils Jurjans
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected ** Description changed: After upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04 I discovered that gnome-shell occasionally starts eating up unreasonably large CPU %. After some head scratching why on earth i thappens, it was clear that moving my mouse energet

[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-20 Thread Daniel van Vugt
1. Bugs like this are usually due to extensions. So first please try disabling any extensions. 2. Please run this command to send us more information about the system: apport-collect 1900760 3. I have actually seen one possible cause for this in recent code changes, but it would only happen a

[Bug 1900760] Re: gnome-shell very high %CPU usage while moving mouse on Ubuntu 20.04

2020-10-20 Thread Daniel van Vugt
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