On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 08:49 -0400, pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Yesterday afternoon (9/20), I did a clean install of F29 Beta 1.5 onto > bare metal via DVD. The PC is a Lenovo M59P with an E8400 processor. The > ISO had been check-summed and passed. The PC booted fine and the media > test ran and passed. Anaconda ran perfectly and the install completed > normally. I did a restart, logged in, and allowed the lock to time out. > > The fan on this system rarely runs at all, but in a few hours of sitting > idle the fan came on. I logged in and started the system monitor and > noted the both core0 and core1 were trading off running at 100%. The > trade cycle was running between 20 and 30 seconds. Sometimes they would > both run at 50% for a few seconds. When I looked at the processes, > gnome-software was the problem. I let the lock time out and left the > system overnight. This morning (9/21) the fan was running full speed and > both core0 and core1 was stuck hard at 100%. Again gnome-software was > the problem. I wanted to see if anything else would run so I started > Rhythm box. There were delays getting it going, but it did start and > worked (radio stream) with no apparent gaps in the audio. When I checked > the Resources and processes, apparently gnome-software was sharing with > Rhythm Box, but only what Rhythm Box needed. When I closed Rhythm Box, > gnome-software went back to taking 90+% of the core0 and core1 cycles. > > I just did a restart and the system returned to normal (fan not > running). This time I'm not going to login. I'm just going to let it sit > and see what happens. > > This is the same problem I found a few days ago with B 1.3 I wrote about > it then, but it was a day later, after a reminder that I wrote and > called out gnome-software. mschwendt reported much the same in the thread "Neverending CPU usage by gnome-software and packagekit". I wonder if software/pk is getting stuck somehow, or doing something far more often than it should. Can one of you post the output of 'sudo journalctl -b -u packagekit', perhaps? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx