Why gnome-shell consumes high CPU load ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • gnome-shell consumes high CPU load in idle state, on RHEL7.1 guest systems running in RHEV3.5 environment.
  • However, the real performance of guest is not affected.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x guest
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.x guest
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x guest

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