Bug#367094: gnome-panel eat 28% of CPU

[Philippe Strauss]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 06:33:19PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 13 mai 2006 à 17:40 +0200, Philippe Strauss a écrit :
> > on a k7 1550MHz, gnome-panel eat the following CPU:
> > 
> > PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> > 4135 philou    15   0 21000  11m 8824 S 28.6  2.3   1:45.71 gnome-panel
> > 
> > When clicking on the applications menu, it flashes constantly and
> > is not usable.
> > Killing gam_server fix the issue.
> 
> Gamin is broken and unmaintained. You should use fam instead.
> 
> Regards,

Thanks for this information, but the dependancy to
gamin is HUGE, losing gnome-panel, gnome-core, kate, nautilus
is a no go for me!

leeloo:/home/philou# apt-get install fam
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  portmap
The following packages will be REMOVED
  bug-buddy eog gamin gedit gnome-about gnome-alsamixer gnome-applets
  gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-gv gnome-media gnome-menus gnome-panel
  gnome-session gnome-terminal gstreamer-editor kate kdebase-bin kdelibs-bin
  kdelibs4c2a kdesktop konsole libbonoboui2-0 libcamel1.2-6 libebook1.2-5
  libecal1.2-3 libedataserver1.2-4 libedataserverui1.2-6 libeel2-2
  libegroupwise1.2-8 libgamin0 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-menu0 libgnome-menu2
  libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomevfs2-0 libgucharmap4 libkonq4
  libnautilus-extension1 libpanel-applet2-0 libtotem-plparser0 nautilus
  python-gmenu totem totem-xine yelp
The following NEW packages will be installed
  fam portmap
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 47 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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