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I've tried running newer CentOS and Fedora GNOME environments but they always feel so much slower than Xfce or unity. When I open ps it shows gnome-shell constantly using 10% cpu and 20-30% memory. Opening menus and switching desktops is such a pain with all the delay. I found this true with Virtual Machines as well.

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I have also experienced memory issues. With the weather extension, gnome-shell goes from 150mb to 2GB in a week. Without extensions it still goes from 150mb to 400mb in a week, but it is much more manageable.

It doesn't use any CPU when idle for me? It does use a bunch when switching workspaces. But after that it drops back to 0%. It should NOT use CPU constantly.

There are memory leaks without any extensions, but usually it's an extension which causes the memory to increase.

I don't use any extensions. On idle, with only a terminal open it jumps from 3% to 26% CPU. I'm under the impression that it has to do with my hardware since I've tried various CentOS and Fedora versions and the issue persists.

> 31.2 26.1 gnome-sh+

I run Gnome Shell on Arch and haven't experienced this. Did you file or contribute your specs to a bug report?

"gnome-shell memory" returns pages of forum posts and bugzilla tickets of people sharing the same issue; and most are left unsolved. But that doesn't excuse me from contributing my specs and trying to help the community. Thanks for the suggestion.

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