https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502852
Bug ID: 502852
Summary: Spectacle crashes and causes high CPU/RAM usage during
screen recording
Classification: Applications
Product: Spectacle
Version: 6.3.3
Platform: openSUSE
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: major
Priority: NOR
Component: General
Assignee: noaha...@gmail.com
Reporter: zakariafarhat...@gmail.com
CC: k...@david-redondo.de
Target Milestone: ---
Summary: Spectacle crashes and causes high CPU/RAM usage during screen
recording
Description:
When I start a screen recording using Spectacle, the application either
immediately freezes or crashes. If I manage to stop the recording, the CPU and
RAM usage spikes drastically, and my PC fans ramp up loudly, indicating a
system resource overload. The performance impact continues until I manually
kill the process.
Steps to reproduce:
Open Spectacle.
Click the "Record Screen" option.
Start recording.
Observe freezing/crashing behavior.
Stop the recording (if possible).
Observe CPU and RAM usage increase sharply.
Expected behavior:
Spectacle should record the screen smoothly and stop recording cleanly without
consuming excessive system resources.
Actual behavior:
App freezes or crashes upon starting recording.
After stopping, CPU and RAM usage spike heavily.
Fans get loud, system becomes sluggish.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS:
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20250402
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.14.0-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 5500
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