Comment 10 for bug 1011886

Here Linux Mint 18.3, Cinnamon still occasionally abuse cpu, using up to 25% in total (100% of 1 core), making the whole gui lag. The more time passes the worse it gets, the only way to "reset" the problem is restarting cinnamon, but it comes up again after 1-2 minutes.

Kernel: 4.11.0-14
GPU: Nvidia GTX 950
Proprietary Driver Version: 387.34