[sles-beta] Was SR 10884981671 - Now Gnome-shell CPU loop

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Morning,

Running SLES-12-GMC2 on a VMware Workstation with VMware Tools… Looks good.

Installed Adabas and ran some basic checks… Quite slow.

Ran xosview and system monitor and see the grand Gnome-shell running at above 80% on all the cpus, not very friendly. I did write some words on this back on July 23rd , see below but at that time trying to get a working stable system was high up the food chain.

Now the system looks stable, time to look at why Gnome-shell is so CPU hungry, or is that they way it always runs? As I have never used Gnome before I’m not sure what it’s normal way of life?

I left it run over lunch and it’s still 70-80% CPU with no I/O or swap active. Question where do I look to find out why?

My feeling in the water is “someone is looking to go home” to access SUSE to look for updates… To try this once a day or week is grand, so one try, but this is a hard loop.

__R

From: Waite, Dick
Sent: Montag, 23. Juni 2014 19:09
To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Cc: Waite, Dick
Subject: SR 10884981671

Grand Evening,

    Update / Upgrade from SLES 11-SP3 to SLES 12-Beta9 running on VMware Workstation 10-0-2 x86_64

"SLES12-Beta9. New Install went Okay on VMware Workstation 10-0-2
Update from SLE11-SP-3 went better but something like "Python-Bonobo* needed a hand job. That did seem to work but I had no mouse control over the display. I could get into text mode with Cntl_Alt_F2 and I took some screenShots. I did try and copy /var/logs/* to a USB but one does not "see" the USB. I have noted the VMware update Tools giving a lot of nags. Should I try and update VMware Tools or is that part of SLES now?"

    I have noted in the past that the Gnome Shell does run with a high CPU usage ... My New Install on the above ran Okay, but while working on another machine I took some screenshots of the SLES 12-Beta9 doing no work but the CPU seems to be very high. maybe that is the way Gnome works, ???? maybe that is Okay but that would cost the users a lot on pennies eating that amount of CPU on a zlinux. It seem to be wanting to do something, but there was nothing to do that I could see. Never used Gnome before so bit of a loss as to what diagnostics to take, comments very welcome, use KDE would be very welcome ;o)

__R


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