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Bug 771227 - High CPU and memory usage when recording video
High CPU and memory usage when recording video
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-09-11 03:52 UTC by Mohammed Sadiq
Modified: 2016-09-11 17:29 UTC
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Description Mohammed Sadiq 2016-09-11 03:52:04 UTC 
When recording a video (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+R), the CPU and memory usage goes high with time. This happens both on wayland and X11. I'm using i915 firmware if that matters.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2016-09-11 17:29:05 UTC 
Unless CPU and memory usage doesn't go down after the recording has stopped, this isn't a bug - encoding a video takes up resources (in particular VP9), especially when frames queue up because the CPU cannot keep up with the encoding.

Please re-open if you belief there's a memory leak after a recording has finished (that is, the shell is no longer recording and the video file has been written completely).