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subeh.sharma
Asked: 2012-01-28 01:17:39 +0800 CST

'gnome-shell' process causing 100% Overall CPU utilization? What is going wrong?

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Since morning today, my laptop has been freezing up frequently. Only option available at that time is to kill x-server(as ctrl-alt-backspace is the only thing which works that time). I checked "Task manager" and it shows "gnome-shell" process consuming upto 70% of CPU. What is going wrong and what can be done to fix it?

Update Issue happened again and i captured few snapshots, which shows the consistent CPU percentage consumed by 'gnome-shell' process. You can also check the "graph" on top-center, which is continuously touching the roof!

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UPDATE

I've moved to Cinnamon Desktop. This problem was hampering my work productivity alot so finally made the switch and i'm pretty comfortable with it now.

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4 Answers

  1. I suffered the same problem (just using Gentoo/Linux as OS). Actually the gnome-shell-theme I used ("Transparent Atolm") seemed to create the problem. After rolling back to the default theme everything worked fine again.

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  2. Cheese running in the background was making gnome-shell go in the 200-350% range for me, in case that helps someone. Check for something using a camera.

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  3. Check:

    1. Your background,
    2. Your theme,
    3. If you're running Google Cloud SDK.

    Change all 3 to see if it helps.

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  4. I am having this exact same issue on my Dell laptop.I am using ubuntu-gnome 16.04.After two days i found that issue was intel graphics. i solved this issue by disabled secondary display.

    setting->displays->secondary display->turn off. only primary display is acive now.that's all..........

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