Hello. First of all thank you for great release! I have two 4k screens with different scaling. 300% for notebook and 200% for external screen. I’m using only one screen at the time. I noticed that budgie-wm generate constant cpu load once scaling was changed. I have tested this issue even witho…

Yes, you are right. Nvidia optimus with performance mode. So Nvidia enabled. I have no choice cos on Thinkpad P50 Nvidia should be active if you want to use external screen =(

ah I think I may have seen past reports on this - this probably a mutter issue at a guess - mutter is the window manager - on budgie you see mutter as a “budgie-wm” process. Please file a bug report on launchpad to report this. ubuntu-bug mutter

Ok, I will try to report it. I have checked with intel only, but still have high cpu load for budge-wm and xorg. 10% for each on idle.

I presume on a reboot the scale settings is retained but the idle reduces ? or is it permanently at 10% due to the scale settings - but low if scale = 100%?

After reboot or even logout/login I have normal cpu load for budgie-wm Scale value doesn’t affect thins issues. It appears on first scale change. bug was reported https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1827049

I will try to test it on live usb for gnome3

I just checked on live usb. Same issue presented, but cpu consumption was not to high. I will recheck on ubuntu live usb 19.04 also

Stock ubuntu 19.04 live usb don’t have such issue.

hmm - this upstream issue then? or could be a new issue. https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/1379

Yes, I read about high cpu load on nvidia. And I can confirm, that. Tested on intel gpu and it eat much less cpu. But this exact bug looks new for me. There is no such issue if scaling was not changed.

19.04 budgie-wm constant cpu load after changing scale

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alex-kirienko April 30, 2019, 3:08pm 15

I will check on live usb if budgie 18.04 have same issue.

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19.04 budgie-wm constant cpu load after changing scale

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