high cpu load (but only when running gnome-shell -r)

[arooni]

i think i've finally figured it out. i have an argos script that talks to timewarrior to see how long i've been working on a particular task updating every 10 seconds or so.

that works great until... gnome-shell fails for some reason and i need to run something like :
gnome-shell --replace &

At that point I see 60+% of cpu occupied.

13309 david 20 0 3415M 190M 83480 R 66.7 2.5 0:11.50 gnome-shell -r

Of course before that point (before I have to restart gnome-shell) everything works swimingly well.

so apart from disabling argos after restarting gnome-shell but before a restart i'd love to see if others have this issue or if there might be a fix in the future.

thanks so much!

[p-e-w]

I'm inclined to close this issue as it's almost certainly a bug in GNOME Shell rather than Argos.

Please let me know if you have reason to believe otherwise (of course, the problem disappearing when Argos is disabled does not by itself mean that the bug is in Argos).

[arooni]

Correlation != causation. I'm sure you're right. gnome-shell has already shown itself to be plenty buggy.

[arooni]

I have noticed that on startup (when no gnome shell is running) there is no CPU effect to running argos. But if gnome-shell crashes and I need to restart it (gnome-shell -r) the CPU usage spikes terribly for argos. i'm just polling timewarrior every minute or so so it shouldn't take 60% of my cpu.

if this is an issue with gnome-shell not sure I could track that down... they'd probably just say 'don't use the extension'