Over the past week I’ve noticed snapd using amounts of CPU for a couple minutes, subsiding, and then coming back. Some quick searching turned this up:
I’m wondering if anyone else in the Tumbleweed camp is able to reproduce this issue?
@brianjcohen AFAIK, snap/snapd is not supported on openSUSE…
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Thank you for your response. Kindly note:
- There are official instructions provided by Canonical that, at least as of a few weeks ago when I followed them, worked perfectly to install snapd: Installing snap on openSUSE | Snapcraft documentation – I used it to install Obsidian because the alternative packaging (Flatpak) breaks certain extensions due to sandboxing.
- Even if snap is not officially supported on Tumbleweed, clearly there are people running it anyway, and I did not post here looking for official support. I merely asked if anyone else was experiencing the same issue.
@brianjcohen not possible to tweak md.obsidian.Obsidian via Flatseal? I see I changed it here to allow D-Bus system bus access…
@malcolmlewis please forgive me, but I’m really just looking to see if anyone else in the community has experienced the high CPU usage condition I asked about, to satisfy my own curiosity. I’m not currently in need of assistance with running Obsidian.
Thanks again.
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Yes, snapd was was causing problems here so I uninstalled it nearly two weeks before that bug report. Note my version was 2.68.3 while the bug report was for snapd 2.68.4.
2025-04-29 05:24:43|remove |snapd|2.68.3-1.5|x86_64|
It was causing high CPU usage. I don’t remember the details because I put zero work in it. I didn’t have a single snap installed so I didn’t need it. I forget why I installed it in the first place but whatever it was didn’t stay long.
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@jsmith64 I appreciate your relevant response.
From the looks of the bug report above, it does seem like a fix is incoming via the kernel, but like you I’ve chosen to remove snapd. Looking back at my notes, the only reason I had used it to install Obsidian was to avoid the relative hassle of using the Obsidian AppImage. I have since managed to get appimaged running which makes using AppImages much, much easier.
Why appimage, where full support is there for Flatpak?
knurpht@Lenovo-P16:/etc/security> flatpak search obsidian
Naam Omschrijving Toepassings-ID Versie Branch Remotes
Obsidian-2 Gtk Theme Obsidian-2 theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Teal Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Teal theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Teal 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Red Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Red theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Red 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Purple Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Purple theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Purple 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Mint Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Mint theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Mint 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Indigo Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Indigo theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Indigo 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Green Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Green theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Green 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Gray Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Gray theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Gray 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Aqua Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Aqua theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Aqua 2.23 3.22 flathub
Obsidian-2-Amber Gtk Theme Obsidian-2-Amber theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Obsidian-2-Amber 2.22 3.22 flathub
Obsidian Markdown-based knowledge base md.obsidian.Obsidian 1.8.10 stable flathub
Tangent A clean and powerful open source notes app io.github.suchnsuch.Tangent 0.8.4 stable flathub
2dTaskBoard Task management productivity app with markdown support io.github.piotrek_k._2dTaskBoard 0.4.3 stable flathub
knurpht@Lenovo-P16:/etc/security>
I mentioned in my earlier reply that certain Obsidian extensions don’t work correctly under Flatpak when it comes to local filesystem access due to sandboxing.
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