FS#70529 - [gnome-shell][glib2] High CPU usage since update to GNOME 40

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jonas Hahnfeld (hahnjo) - Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 17:33 GMT
Last edited by David Thurstenson (thurstylark) - Wednesday, 23 March 2022, 19:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Since a few days (I think coinciding with the update to GNOME 40), gnome-shell starts to use 100% (one core) after a while. When attaching with gdb and running "thread apply all bt", I see that the LWP of the one "pool-gnome-shel" thread is steadily increasing (spawning and killing them, I suppose). The stack trace is:
#0 0x00007f3a8e1dba9d in syscall () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00007f3a8eff106b in g_cond_wait_until () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#2 0x00007f3a8ef728b3 in () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3 0x00007f3a8ef72a44 in g_async_queue_timeout_pop () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4 0x00007f3a8efd3d2a in () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#5 0x00007f3a8efd10c1 in () at /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#6 0x00007f3a8d71f299 in start_thread () at /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
#7 0x00007f3a8e1e1053 in clone () at /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Additional info:
* gnome-shell 1:40.0+39+gd9e953e93-1
* glib2 2.68.1-1
* on i915, running Wayland

Steps to reproduce:
Just wait. Maybe it's related that I suspend my laptop multiple times a day.
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Closed by  David Thurstenson (thurstylark)
Wednesday, 23 March 2022, 19:32 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jonas Hahnfeld (hahnjo) - Wednesday, 21 April 2021, 17:54 GMT
Immediately after reporting, I had the idea to attach strace and I see the same sequence of ioctl's repeated over and over again. I've reported https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4159 upstream.
Comment by mattia (nTia89) - Sunday, 20 March 2022, 15:27 GMT
I cannot reproduce the issue. Is it still valid for you?
Comment by Jonas Hahnfeld (hahnjo) - Sunday, 20 March 2022, 16:38 GMT
No, as written in the upstream bug report I didn't run into this since last year May. Sorry for not updating this (downstream) bug report.

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