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Cinnamon starts taking 100% cpu on fullscreen apps #5416

Closed SethDusek closed 4 years ago

SethDusek commented 8 years ago

Here is a picture of cinnamon taking up 87.8% cpu while playing broforce. This often makes the system unusable, and this insane amount of cpu usage sometimes even locks up my system completely.

Version: Cinnamon 3.0.6 Drivers: Nvidia-364 with nvidia-prime Mint version: Linux mint 18 (happens on 17 too btw) Fullscreen redirection is off btw, if that makes a difference

kolorafa commented 8 years ago

Try restarting cinnamon (alt+f2 type r and enter) no need to close windows

For me, after some time simple by running glxgears on fullscreen (fullhd) get cinnamon up to 95% After restarting cinnamon it goes down to 17% (after closing glxgeras goes down to 7% as i have some windows open)

Arch + Cinnamon 3.0.7 nvidia-340xx CPU xeon 2.3GHz

SethDusek commented 8 years ago

@kolorafa Yeah but that isn't a permanent solution, and I can see how that can become annoying having to do that every time

Vahan86 commented 6 years ago

@SethDusek, is this still an issue in Cinnamon 3.6?

eCyclops commented 5 years ago

Certainly I have issues with Cinnamon maximizing processor use. In my case, the full-screen app was a screensaver left for two weeks. Cinnamon 3.8.9

SethDusek commented 5 years ago

@SethDusek, is this still an issue in Cinnamon 3.6?

Hi, I saw this issue after a long time, and I'm sorry to say but I can't be of much help anymore. I no longer have the hardware that I had when I made this post, and I've also migrated to KDE due to unrelated reasons. I can close this if the devs would like.