Bug#461106: gnome-panel starts consuming 75% or more of the CPU and becomes unresponsive

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Sergio Llorente wrote:
> gnome-panel starts consuming 75% or more of the CPU and becomes
> unresponsive after having worked for a random number of hours.
> 
> The problem started when the testing Debian distribution was upgraded one
> week ago.
> 
> I do not know how to reproduce the problem. The program "gnome-panel" begin
> to eat almost all CPU suddenly, after having worked for many hours. After
> killing "gnome-panel", other process seem to work perfectly.

 Can you create a new user on your system and check whether it happens
 for the new user as well?

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Loïc Minier