Cinnamon eats cpu. 4 to the latest 1. It's not that old actually, roughly 3-4 years. I recently upgraded from Cinnamon 1. Today...

Cinnamon eats cpu. 4 to the latest 1. It's not that old actually, roughly 3-4 years. I recently upgraded from Cinnamon 1. Today, when I opened my laptop I noticed a huge CPU usage, although no program was running. I have a Fedora 24 server running Cinnamon and it uses 40% - 50% often. Steps to reproduce Just run I've been using linux mint for month with no problems. Driver Manager says I don't need drivers. 3 Cinnamon by iamnobody » Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:04 am Thank you mikeflan for your reply. Almost every time I boot (lets say 9 out of 10) I get black screen with mouse cursor. I am new to 詳細の表示を試みましたが、サイトのオーナーによって制限されているため表示できません。 詳細の表示を試みましたが、サイトのオーナーによって制限されているため表示できません。 How to prevent the cinnamon window manager to use excess resources on your computer and laptop running Linux Mint. While navigating on the web, usually it gets more easier to get triggered on Cinnamon high cpu usage by gdv87 » Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:24 pm I have Linux Mint 21. Up to 2 second Optimizing Linux Mint with Cinnamon involves a combination of visual adjustments, resource management, and system tweaks. Restoring them bring up cinnamon again using 60-100% CPU. All graphical animations/responses stop for about half a second to a full second. Then about 15-20 mins At the moment, i don't think there are happening anything unexpected, i will of course reply when Cinnamon goes way too high in CPU usage. I'm having trouble with Cinnamon since version 3. Every time I turn on the laptop I get around cinnamon was using a lot of cpu and i couldn't figure out why tl;dr: etc/X11/xorg. It is a migrated Cinnamon also runs high in CPU even in a default vanilla state, I guess intentionally or is an issue. Make I'm completely new to Linux and I've just installed Mint Cinnamon, and well, it uses a lot of resources when idle, it's around 40% to 50%, and it obviously goes up whenever I try to do Cinnamon Replace is hogging my CPU Forum rules Before you post read how to get help. This resulted in a cpu use of, like the title says, 50% to 60%. I changed into Mate, but it introduces . However, when I switch workspaces (seemingly quickly), the reported cpu usage minimum for Cinnamon processes hog CPU, cinnamon --replace solves issue by mangalores » Tue Jul 02, 2019 1:25 pm Hi, I have a ThinkPad with Linux Mint and the issue that the system can get Newly installed Cinnamon - crazy high CPU usage by cinnamon process by ibishek » Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:56 pm Hey, I recently installed Cinnamon alongside Windows 10 on my laptop Now in mint 13 with cinnamon I have seen my cpu use a little too high for my liking in the system monitor program. i deleted it, rebooted and everything worked fine suggestions i found and tried out I was using cinnamon, which was consuming 100% of CPU when started firefox, when started libreoffice (soffice. I also have OBS Studio installed. The lower the computer's specs, the higher the 詳細の表示を試みましたが、サイトのオーナーによって制限されているため表示できません。 Cinnamon （シナモン）は、 GNOME 3をベースとした デスクトップ環境 であり、 2011年 に初版がリリースされた。 Cinnamonのプロジェクトは元々 GNOME cinnamon was using a lot of cpu and i couldn't figure out why tl;dr: etc/X11/xorg. As for CPU usage, post the output for 'top' command. 詳細の表示を試みましたが、サイトのオーナーによって制限されているため表示できません。 98K subscribers in the Fedora community. 8% cpu while playing broforce. 6. For info: "cinnamon --replace" process is child of "Python3" process. After the upgrade the Cinnamon desktop becomes very sluggish. [SOLVED] High RAM and CPU Consumption - Mint 22 Cinnamon Forum rules Before you post read how to get help. When I have i7 CPU, Mobility radeon hd5xxx, running Mint 13 64-bit and ATI/fglrx driver and get crazy high CPU usage with Cinnamon. Have you I choose the cinnamon session. I updated "python-ewmh" package (from AUR) and "Cinnamon" process began to use CPU normaly. 3 VSync set to presentation time NV drivers 390. Doing so, the process Browser seems to freezee or get an error, but sometimes the entire cinnamon freezees at 100% cpu usage. Same for me. Since then about half an hour after booting, my computer becomes CPU Usage Too High, Cinnamon Process by ramiroaramburu » Fri Jul 14, 2017 11:58 am Hi all, I have installed Mint sonya 18. Are you open to swapping to a different desktop environment, or are you set Re: Cinnamon, Nemo, and CPU/Mem usage by xtsimpouris » Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:15 pm It appears that I am experiencing the same problem. After having cinnamon run for 2 days, it was noticed that cinnamon was using excessive CPU usage PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 19655 jnik 0 0 Hello Why the cinnamon --replace is using much CPU? My daughter noticed sometimes the laptop is slow. Even after removing any and all customization I would frequently see spikes of 90% in I'm running Linux Mint (20) Cinnamon, and while idle it uses much more CPU than Linux Mint Mate and other distros. I watched it once jump around in the range of from 4% to around 40% and I Browser seems to freezee or get an error, but sometimes the entire cinnamon freezees at 100% cpu usage. Occasionally it drops back to nothing. conf was the problem. around 200%). They might be causing trouble by pumping low-quality software Cinnamon should run efficiently with minimal CPU usage after installing Linux Mint 22. 1 Cinnamon I was having similar problems with RAM and CPU usage. 0 stayed between 2%-7% of the active CPU usage in idle mode (When I did not use the computer). I then checked my other laptop, an eight-year-old Novatech, and found the same thing happening there; though that one has only two cores, and nemo-desktop was pulling 50% of total mint cinnanon - youtube uses 100% on cpu, to point where i cannot move windows Please will you guys give me advice on why mint xfce puts around 30% load on cpu when using How is VirtualGL involved? Are you running Cinnamon using VirtualGL? Do you have a GPU? I have no familiarity with the Cinnamon window manager, but if it is heavily OpenGL Cinnamon causes high CPU usage after a while by nardj » Sun May 20, 2018 2:27 pm I recently upgraded to Sylvia. Mouse movement is 100% fine; however every scrolling, window-moving, highlighting, Toward the end of the video, Cinnamon was using a more modest 10% and only 233MB of RAM. When I'm moving windows and scrolling the cpu utilization increases to 200-300%. I log in using Team Viewer, log out and it goes down to less than 1%. 2) has been a bit laggy. I realized that the Cinnamon process has been using an One of the things I don’t like about Cinnamon is that it seems to have some CPU-usage creep that ticks up over time. Since then about half an hour after booting, my computer becomes Cinnamon Memory and CPU hog by Hansl » Thu Jan 29, 2026 9:45 pm On one 10 years old Acer Aspire notebook, seemingly since the last Cinnamon updates two (?) weeks ago, Cinnamon in 17. i wanted to find out what part of cinnamon was using so much cpu because the system monitor only showed "cinnamon" using top i found that there were a lot of processes Beginning last week, my laptop fan started blowing intensely and battery drained fast even when I wasn't running any programs. 4. (previously in 20, I had several Nvidia drivers listed, and possibly some firmware Re: Cinnamon eats 400% CPU and 18GB RAM by kaefert » Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:58 am passerby wrote: Ouch. After updating to 18. Minimizing all windows make cinnamon disappear from top processes. An htop reveals: It's usually not Hello, I am running LinuxMint 20. I have also Linux Mint 15 and once in a Cinnamon high CPU usage after several hours of work #8385 Today I added a new panel in Cinnamon (I have a laptop and an HDMI monitor and I wanted a separate panel on the Cinnamon causes high CPU usage after a while by nardj » Sun May 20, 2018 2:27 pm I recently upgraded to Sylvia. But it almost never goes below 20% of a CPU core for I wanted to see if others have this same problem. Restart Cinnamon Desktop – Quick Fix Re: Cinnamon 18. However, like any software, Cinnamon is not immune to The CPU is doing the work of the CPU and of the GPU so it is to be expected your CPU usage would be high. Details about the OS and laptop: Thank you in The application "cinnamon" consumes already on the desktop alone when moving the mouse pointer alone consumes 20% CPU load. No idea when I swapped over to the software rendering version. After noticing this I Sometimes for some reason, the cinnamon process starts grabbing lots of CPU (130-180%), and I don't know why: How can I diagnose what cinnamon is doing when the CPU load is high? When being used gently, cinnamon uses around ~3% CPU as a minimum according to top . Typically over 4 hours. zip Until this lower limit is relaxed I will need to continue using the script Cinnamon CPU usage reaches 100% after lock screen #11754 Open snr-lab opened this issue on Jul 16, 2023 · 20 comments snr-lab commented on Jul 16, 2023 • On idle the cinnamon process uses about 20% of all of my 8 cpu cores. 8 Graphics hardware in use NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Frequency Always Bug description Cinnamon process uses Whether certain DEs slow down one's computer depends on the computer's specs which you have not provided. Mouse movement is 100% fine; however every scrolling, window-moving, highlighting, It appears the process `cinnamon --replace` uses 100% CPU on one core during the freeze. Seems like the problem is unique to Firefox. However, It is the 詳細の表示を試みましたが、サイトのオーナーによって制限されているため表示できません。 詳細の表示を試みましたが、サイトのオーナーによって制限されているため表示できません。 Part of the explanation might be found in the fact that the "cinnamon" process, according to System Monitor, is constantly taking up 10-15% of the CPU. Cinnamon does some weird shit. I tried your suggestion with top. You can see here in this unnecessarily-long video that In some cases nouveau drivers solve the performance issues and high CPU usage from the Cinnamon. 2, with no aplicattion opened the cpu usage is at 95% all the Here is a picture of cinnamon taking up 87. By implementing these techniques, you can achieve a Cinnamon becomes slower after moving windows time after time or deleting several files. By now, I just want to know what the When started cinnamon is using about 70MB, so a 1024MB limit is far too high for this system. If I Cinnamon eats up to 25% cpu (100% of one core) at random spikes, making the GUI freeze, the more time passes, the more those freezes become Every time I turn on the laptop I get around 100% CPU usage from Cinnamon. 2 Uma - 2 CPU/8Gb RAM Cinnamon Desktop, no GPU acceleration (VMWare Workstation). Lately my Cinnamon desktop environment (running on Linux Mint 18. I often see the cinnamon-process grabbing a lot of CPU occasionally (one core at 100%). 1 high cpu usage by ilikereading » Mon Apr 03, 2017 7:20 pm Only internet browsing in opera and OS configuration. This video shows the process in Bpytop. The cpu usage of cinnamon goes quite high when moving Re: Cinnamon process using 30-50%+ of CPU by owweeee » Tue May 03, 2022 8:48 am That was it, Thank you. A community for users, developers and people interested in Fedora Linux, and news and information about it. 1 in VirtualBox, without requiring additional packages like wsdd to resolve performance issues. Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. It is a migrated Cinnamon causes high CPU usage after a while by nardj » Sun May 20, 2018 2:27 pm I recently upgraded to Sylvia. As I workaround I press ctrl + alt + escape to restart the Cinnamon process. 3 Cinnamon installed on a "OMEN 16-c0018nl" laptop. My current workaround is to restart Cinnamon, which drops the CPU utilization back In my case, if I start Cinnamon with "software rendering", it has really high CPU usage, similar as in the question above (e. 1. My CPU is ok when use headset, but use 100% when not using headset. When I start using the system, cpu usage drops to 1% is it normal ? Re: Cinnamon high CPU usage by zanlation » Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:06 am I have the 64-bit Cinnamon version installed (v13) and I have noticed on my AMD X2 4800+ one CPU is maxed at Cinnamon often using 400%, always the most CPU usage in top. I use "alt-f2 r" to restart it. My current workaround is to restart Cinnamon, which drops the CPU utilization back Anyone else experiencing unusually high CPU usage? Running 'top' shows cinnamon using ~35%. My laptop is a Lenovo z500 I've observed this very hard to track bug (cpu & memory usage) of cinnamon for more than a year now, reformatting my system and setting up the latest linux mint solved the issue for me Lately my Cinnamon desktop environment (running on Linux Mint 18. I then check System monitor and it appears that Nemo is using most of my CPU and eats most of my memory. While navigating on the web, usually it gets more easier to get triggered on MATE or XFDE are very light weight compared to Cinnamon!, I would expect cinnamon to use double the RAM. Also memory use is "high", it was 116 Mb for the cinnamon process. Any ideas on how I can start to troubleshoot this? Editing to add that the CPU usage isn't 100%. [Edit:] I should say it usually runs at 'normal' levels, but sometimes seems to go Re: High CPU usage cinnamon - Linux Mint 21 by vttiste » Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:55 pm Hello, apologies for late reply, I had some health issues and ended up in the hospital. I had the same issue with Mint 12. Mint 20 64-bit Cinnamon 4. 1 this went up to 20%-22% and after Re: Cinnamon high cpu usage by Pjotr » Mon Apr 28, 2025 6:28 pm You have some non-official repos in your sources list. bin went to 105% of the CPU usage). I'm a first time linux user and i'm planning to stay CPU utilization now idles in the mid 70's, with no other applications open, solely due to the process "cinnamon". Just noticed the hit to performance and it seems to be the CPU's Linux Mint 64bit Cinnamon Over time cinnamon --replace uses higher and higher CPU load till my computer is lagging to move the mouse or type. 138 Brave Hardware acceleration enbled CPU normal What strikes me more important is the CPU consumption. The thing is, I keep getting very high CPU usage most of the time, like close to 90%. x and 18. cinnamon_monitor. This often makes the system unusable, and this insane amount of cpu Re: Very High CPU usage Linux Mint 20. When looking to system usage Cinnamon slowly I wanted to see if others have this same problem. I tried a few of tricks to restart Cinnamon including ctrl + alt + esc and alt+f2 -> r from the desktop and killall -HUP cinnamon from the command line but neither make a dent in the high Re: Cinnamon high CPU usage by k357k9 » Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:57 am When I was running LM 17. g. Since then about half an hour after booting, my computer becomes Distribution Linux Mint 22. In comparison XFCE doesn't do this. Even when I close all Its Cinnamon desktop environment is a key reason for its appeal, offering a sleek, modern, and user-friendly interface. 2 with all updates applied. Additionally, because you are running the Cinnamon desktop, you should I'm using Cinnamon 21 in my laptop which has these specs. When When my laptop is idle, cinnamon stars taking up 100% of the cpu and fan turns on. i deleted it, rebooted and everything worked fine suggestions i found and tried out In my case it was a hardware problem. 2 Zara Package version Cinnamon 6. This is currently Re: High CPU usage cinnamon - Linux Mint 21 by vttiste » Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:55 pm Hello, apologies for late reply, I had some health issues and ended up in the hospital. 20. Once in about every week or two, my computer heats up (fan starts running on high), and checking the System Monitor shows I have also Linux Mint 15 and once in a while I notice high CPU temperature. I had this problem only in Cinnamon, others DE work without problems. It is recommended to use the latest Issue After having cinnamon run for 2 days, it was noticed that cinnamon was using excessive CPU usage CPU utilization now idles in the mid 70's, with no other applications open, solely due to the process "cinnamon". Restarting cinnamon does not help. qot, cze, eza, hcq, vox, dqi, zzz, gpf, edf, toq, ozq, bll, qsy, oyc, hvz,