high CPU usage with idle spyder (linux)
Author: gschwindCreated Sep 16, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026
Hello,
I experience high CPU usage with spyder even if spyder doing nothing on linux. More over I get freeze while loading "preference" for instance.
To assess the issue I written the a quick&dirty script to monitor spyder CPU usage using cgroup cgroup-cpu-time.py. I started spyder with an empty project in it's own cgroup and just waited doing nothing and monitored CPU usage and got this:
The graph above is made with:
- Spyder version: 6.1.7 (pip)
- Python version: 3.14.7 64-bit
- Qt version: 5.15.14
- PyQt5 version: 5.15.11
- Operating System: Linux-6.18.48-gentoo-dist-x86_64-13th_Gen_Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-1315U-with-glibc2.43
but I got high CPU usage in all my work load with various versions of spyder. Note that the graph above is accumulated cpu usage in %, for instance 200 mean 2 cpu core at 100%
Best regards
Source: spyder-ide/spyder