I just had this happen again, unity8-dash isn't hogging the cpu this time. phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ top -n 1 -b top - 19:44:36 up 45 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 Tasks: 242 total, 5 running, 236 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 20.6 us, 12.7 sy, 0.3 ni, 65.5 id, 0.9 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem: 983760 total, 955356 used, 28404 free, 7632 buffers KiB Swap: 524284 total, 240680 used, 283604 free. 130060 cached Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 6581 phablet 20 0 6088 1116 796 R 12.8 0.1 0:00.06 top 7528 phablet 20 0 24620 13120 3232 R 12.8 1.3 3:23.28 python3 3156 phablet 20 0 617876 72788 21744 S 4.3 7.4 1:07.18 unity8-dash 1 root 20 0 3848 2140 1048 S 0.0 0.2 0:08.21 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.24 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.63 ksoftirqd/0 6 root -99 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.37 migration/0 16 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kdevtmpfs 18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 19 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 fs_sync 20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 suspend 21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 sync_supers 22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 23 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd 24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 26 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cfg80211 27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.45 pmic_thread+ 28 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 emi_mpu 29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:08.09 kswapd0 30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 fsnotify_ma+ 31 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ecryptfs-kt+ 32 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 crypto 46 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:05.66 kworker/u:1 53 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 uether 54 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 binder 55 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 hang_detect 56 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 ion_mm_heap 58 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.99 bat_thread_+ 59 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.17 mtk charger+ 60 root -81 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.46 btif_rxd 61 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 conn-md-thr+ 62 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mtk_vibrator 63 root 10 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 krfcommd 64 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 disp_config+ 65 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 esd_recover+ 66 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:04.21 mmcqd/0 67 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 mmcqd/0boot0 68 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 mmcqd/0boot1 69 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.09 disp_captur+ 70 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 disp_captur+ 71 root -95 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:07.66 disp_config+ 72 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.29 disp_clean_+ 73 root -95 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 disp_ovl_kt+ 74 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 accdet 75 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 keyEvent_se+ 76 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 accdet_eint 77 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 accdet_disa+ 78 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 sensor_poll+ 81 root -92 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 mtk-tpd 94 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 deferwq 95 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