Bug#627007: Severe "Processor Leak" when Pointer is on GTK/GDK Window

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 17 mai 2011 à 16:04 -0700, Elliott Mitchell a écrit : 
> Not much needed to reproduce. Start one of the many afflicted programs,
> whenever you move the pointer into its window and see the processor usage
> hit 100% whenever you move the pointer out of the window processor usage
> will return to idle.

Guess what. I have hundreds of GTK-based applications installed and none
of them exhibits the behavior you describe.

> I'm guessing some configuration setting(s) might be involved, but I've
> only got wild guesses as to what combination is involved. The extra bits
> that come to mind are, I've currently got metacity 1:2.30.1-3 as window
> manager and have focus follows mouse set. There are also two monitors
> attached to this system. I'll also theorize this may be effecting a fair
> number of systems, but it likely isn't as noticable on multiprocessor
> systems.

I’m guessing this only affects your system since this is the first time
I ever heard of this bug.

What is your graphics hardware and which driver are you using?

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