Question Gnome high resource usage

[apoorv569]

i installed arch linux a few days back on my laptop and installed gnome as my desktop environment. as of now everything was fine until today i noticed increased cpu nd mem usage on my laptop. i dont know if its normal or not plz help me. here are the screenshots

neofetch (mega cloud and gnome extensions running in background) -

https://imgur.com/wDa6RgL

View: https://imgur.com/wDa6RgL


on idle (steam, mega cloud and some gnome extensions running in background) -

https://imgur.com/xWXcLo7

View: https://imgur.com/xWXcLo7


if i just drag and move the terminal window (steam, mega cloud and some gnome extensions running in background) -

https://imgur.com/noLFKtU

View: https://imgur.com/noLFKtU


if i press super key and try to search something (steam, mega cloud and some gnome extensions running in backgroud) -

https://imgur.com/0ueSPmV

View: https://imgur.com/0ueSPmV

 

[delaro]

Ignore the 3rd one, the other two are normal. Resource reporting isn't always accurate and seeing CPU usage bump around up to 50% is normal as long as it doesn't stay that way for long periods of time. The only exceptions are when your updating.

 

[firelighter487]

that is normal ram usage for gnome. i'm using 3.4gb with a few tabs open in chrome and discord and spotify running.

gnome is quite a heavy desktop though, and i wouldn't recommend it with 4gb of ram for that reason... if your system becomes slow then i would switch to xfce.