GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136819
CPU hogging on behalf of Gossip and its notification applet
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Here is how I encountered the problem, once by now. I returned to my desktop after being away for some time and noticed the screensaver was running sluggish. top revealed the CPU hogs: gossip, notification-area-applet, and the X server. After I quit Gossip (the right-click menu on applet was sluggish too) and launched it again, CPU usage got back to normal.
Which version of GNOME and Gossip? This sounds like an old bug in the notification area or the panel, can't remember which.
Gossip 0.7.2 GNOME Panel & Notification Applet 2.4.2
Oh, looks like it's a duplicate of bug #122327 (yet the new stable gtk+ is still not released). I beg your pardon everyone.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 122327 ***