GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 130554
100% CPU load of notification area
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I have verified this problem on GNOME 2.4.1 with GAIM 0.74 and Gnome gnomeicu 0.98.126 on SuSE Linux 9.0+supplementary GNOME and on Gentoo unstable. Running both notification area applet and GAIM or gnomeicu, CPU load of both of these raises nearly to 100% (notification area applet about 60%, application 40%). It seems that occur only in case, when program (gaim, gnomeicu) is started before notification area applet is launched. Closing either notification area applet or GAIM, CPU load disappears. I don't know, whether it is a bug of both gnomeicu and gaim or bug of notification area. How to simply repeat: gaim ; killall gnome-panel Related bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid=100235&func=detail&aid=867603 remove notification area applet, then gnomeicu and add notification area applet (gnomeicu has related bug 125773, which prevents upper mentioned way to repeat).
GAIM with KDE notification area has not this problem. It is most probably GNOME Notification Area issue, not GAIM. I have tried to catch them in running state (sorry for no debugging symbols): notification-area-applet:
+ Trace 43017
Apparently fixed in gtk+ HEAD. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122327 ***