Hi! I have to say that as much I like KDE and Plasma desktop, I have a major problem.



As you can see, Plasma eat a lot of my CPU and stuck sometimes completely, so I need restart it with Konsole.

My setup is here:



What I can do to eliminate that CPU hog?

Hi, I did not see that using top under KDE Neon and using htop I have noticed that plasmashell is not eating my CPU resources.
I post the output of the top command from the terminal for my pc:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
8839 jochoa 20 0 3669948 1,644g 1,524g S 11,9 51,9 5:31.34 VirtualBox
8497 jochoa 20 0 2443136 337012 114104 S 6,3 10,1 3:41.36 firefox
8646 jochoa 20 0 1812600 259764 68596 S 2,0 7,8 0:49.22 WebExtensions
1225 jochoa 20 0 3298644 37104 24608 S 1,7 1,1 12:09.91 kwin_x11
9133 jochoa 20 0 27020 4148 3228 S 1,7 0,1 0:07.58 htop
913 root 20 0 350536 48368 33192 S 1,0 1,5 18:20.66 Xorg
1306 jochoa 20 0 698672 34184 27916 S 0,7 1,0 0:21.17 yakuake
8796 jochoa 20 0 1512400 43048 23360 S 0,7 1,3 0:08.67 VirtualBox
8816 jochoa 20 0 840328 12456 5516 S 0,7 0,4 0:09.44 VBoxSVC
176 root -2 0 0 0 0 S 0,3 0,0 0:12.13 i915/signal:0
9070 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,3 0,0 0:00.93 kworker/1:0
9212 jochoa 20 0 41704 3736 3136 R 0,3 0,1 0:00.23 top
1 root 20 0 159748 4632 3228 S 0,0 0,1 0:03.23 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.01 kthreadd
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_wq
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.59 ksoftirqd/0
8 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,0 0,0 0:19.11 rcu_sched
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 rcu_bh
10 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.00 migration/0
11 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 0:00.17 watchdog/0
jochoa@jochoapc:~$ plasmashell -v
plasmashell 5.14.3
jochoa@jochoapc:~$ screenfetch
`..---+/---..` jochoa@jochoapc
`---.`` `` `.---.` OS: KDE neon 5.14
.--.` `` `-:-. Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-38-generic
`:/: `.----//----.` :/- Uptime: 1d 1h 32m
.:. `---` `--.` .:` Packages: 2153
.:` `--` .:- `:. Shell: bash 4.4.19
`/ `:. `.-::-.` -:` `/` Resolution: 1280x1024
/. /. `:++++++++:` .: .: DE: KDE 5.52.0 / Plasma 5.14.3
`/ .: `+++++++++++/ /` `+` WM: KWin
/+` -- .++++++++++++` :. .+: WM Theme: Breeze Colours
`/ .: `+++++++++++/ /` `+` GTK Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3]
/` /. `:++++++++:` .: .: Icon Theme: breeze
./ `:. `.:::-.` -:` `/` Font: Noto Sans Regular
.:` `--` .:- `:. CPU: Intel Pentium Dual E2200 @ 2x 2.203GHz
.:. `---` `--.` .:` GPU: Mesa DRI Intel(R) 965G
`:/: `.----//----.` :/- RAM: 2569MiB / 3245MiB
.-:.` `` `-:-.
`---.`` `` `.---.`
`..---+/---..`