How can I diagnose high CPU usage in Cinnamon?

[CapnKernel]

I'm a very happy Cinnamon user since Gnome 2 days. I use the Cinnamon that comes with Fedora (5.8.4).

Sometimes for some reason, the cinnamon process starts grabbing lots of CPU (130-180%), and I don't know why:

How can I diagnose what cinnamon is doing when the CPU load is high? Is there a profiler I can turn on or use?

Thank you.

[100savage]

You might have a resource leak, press CTRL+Alt+Esc together to reset the wayward cinnamon process. Doing so won't close anything you have open but should help restore some normality.

[Harry-W-Haines-III]

Just trying to help here. What is your CPU?

[Jopp-gh]

I agree with 100savage.
Also, not sure if related or not, try to check your cinnamon plugins, desklets and applets. Try to deactivate them one by one and see what happens

[CapnKernel]

Thank you, this problem has gone away. It could be because I upgraded Cinnamon, or because I've been able to switch to accelerated mode rather than fallback mode.