High CPU usage by gnome-shell (until 54% of CPU)

Bug #1882437 reported by Fred
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Bug Description

"top" command show that the process "gnome-shell" have very often a big CPU usage between 10% and 80%. In the same time the hard-disk seems to be used.
It's very worst than the Ubuntu 19.04.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-33.37-generic 5.4.34
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jun 7 17:51:46 2020
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-30 (190 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-16 (22 days ago)

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Fred (frederic-icerasemi) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1880405, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

tags: added: performance
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