I have a gnome-builder-3.18.1 compilation with all plugins enabled. After startup, I have one thread that persistently is using up 100% CPU.

I'm not a developer and suck at debugging but every time I gdb break the program, that thread is doing 20+ deep stack of ide_ctags_service_mine_directory calls leading to an __lxstat call with argument something like "/usr/include/node/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/src/deps/v8/includesrc/deps/uv/include/src/src/deps/uv/include..."

It turns out my nodejs installation has put a "src" symlink in /usr/include/node, pointing to ".".

$ ls -rtl /usr/include/node/ | grep src
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      1 Nov  8 15:25 src -> .

This might be a problem with the nodejs installation, but the 100% CPU usage might also reveal a problem with the builder plugin that is easily fixed.

Logging this bug to flag the observation, feel free to dismiss.