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High CPU usage with no game running.

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7625 · opened 2021-01-27 by wildcard-f8 · updated 2021-03-20 · 3 comments · github
Wwildcard-f8 2021-01-27 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Jan 22 2021
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Manjaro
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes]
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes]

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

After a few hours of having the client running, whether I'm playing or not, top shows that Steam is consuming 100%+ of CPU.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Run Steam
  2. Leave it running for X amount of time.
  3. ?
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-01-27 github

Hello @wildcard-f8, can you share the information requested in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/7372#issuecomment-696193644? In particular, I'm curious what are the name(s) of thread(s) involved.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-02-25 github

Closing pending feedback. Possibly fixed in the current Steam client beta along with #7372.

Wwildcard-f8 2021-03-20 github

Sorry for the very late reply. Yes, I think a previous update fixed it.

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