# Budgie Panel CPU Usage

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391>\
**Category:** Budgie Applets\
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391 "2019-08-29T13:54:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/1 "2019-08-29T13:54:45Z")

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Curious question: Reason for the question is that I am trying to hunt down a battery problem on a laptop.

Why would the budgie-panel process use 6x the cpu of the window manager? On Solus each process is about the same.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/3/34c562c59aeb91462dad5f3df361632cb9deb4ea.png)

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/2 "2019-08-29T13:56:59Z")

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you’ll need to remove applets one at a time - restart the panel between each removal to see which one is higher than you were expecting.

BTW the screenshot shows %CPU of zero - are you referring the memory?

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/3 "2019-08-29T13:59:22Z")

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> you’ll need to remove applets one at a time

Yes, I am doing that now.

> BTW the screenshot shows %CPU of zero - are you referring the memory

No CPU Time

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/4 "2019-08-29T14:06:28Z")

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> restart the panel  
> budgie-panel --reset ??

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/5 "2019-08-29T14:18:49Z")

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Looks like Icon Task List is the problem.

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/6 "2019-08-29T14:31:27Z")

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budgie-panel --replace &

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/7 "2019-08-29T14:32:25Z")

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huh? The budgie-desktop v10.5 code (in theory) should be the same across all budgie based distro’s in this area.

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/8 "2019-08-29T14:45:33Z")

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OK, I was wrong. Looks like the Screenshot applet is the problem. I did a reset and added that applet and then logout/in and the panel cpu time started going up. Should I file an issue?

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**Author:** ![fossfreedom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/fossfreedom/32/1405_2.png) [@fossfreedom](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/fossfreedom)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/9 "2019-08-29T14:50:09Z")

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unusual - yes please - file an issue [https://github.com/cybre/budgie-screenshot-applet](https://github.com/cybre/budgie-screenshot-applet)

Is it a gradual CPU buildup or only when you start doing specific things?

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/10 "2019-08-29T14:57:18Z")

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> Is it a gradual CPU buildup or only when you start doing specific things?

Nope, log out/in launch monitor and observe

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**Author:** ![makitso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/makitso/32/4961_2.png) [@makitso](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/makitso)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/budgie-panel-cpu-usage/2391/11 "2019-08-29T15:43:14Z")

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Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get a reproducible set of metrics on this, so will have to hold off till I can do some more analysis.