GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 775162
Fedora 25 + GNOME 3.22 + Wayland: moving cursor with a trackpad causes gnome-shell's CPU usage to spike
Last modified: 2017-05-01 23:51:36 UTC
I'm running Fedora 25 + GNOME 3.22 + Wayland on a 2016 HP Spectre x360 (Kaby Lake). gnome-shell usually idles at 0-8% of one processor core. When I use my trackpad's cursor to draw small circles, gnome-shell immediately spikes in CPU and memory usage. Screen recording attached. Note: the screen recording exacerbates the problem to a huge extent; when I'm *not* recording, drawing circles with the trackpad spikes gnome-shell to about 30-40% of one processor core, not 250%, and gnome-shell idles at 0-8%, not 50%. But still, 30-40% of one processor core seems very high for just moving the cursor around. I'm not sure what additional information to collect but I would be happy to do so, since this is very reproducible for me.
Don't think this is a GNOME bug, since it disappears when using X instead of Wayland. I've filed https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99225
Freedesktop folks say it's not their bug, and that it's on GNOME.
Almost certainly a duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745032 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 745032 ***