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Date:      Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:52:33 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@srrc.ars.usda.gov>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: acme in notification area hogging CPU
Message-ID:  <1062283953.20426.13.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030829224554.GA95841@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>
References:  <20030829224554.GA95841@node1.cluster.srrc.usda.gov>

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On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:45, Glenn Johnson wrote:
> This just started a couple of days ago and I am seeing it on both my
> home machine and work machine.  I have acme set to start at session
> startup and I have the "Notification Area" enabled on the panel.  So
> there is a little icon in the notification area for acme.  Upon initial
> gnome session startup acme, panel, and notification are all using as
> many CPU cycles as they can.  This condition will persist until I click
> on the acme icon in the notification area.  Then the CPU usage goes down
> to essentially zero for acme, panel, and notification.  I do not have to
> open acme, just click on the icon.
>=20
> If I do not have the notification area enabled and acme starting at
> session startup, then the acme and panel CPU utilization is normal.  If
> I have the notification area enabled and acme *not* start at session
> startup, then the panel and notification CPU utilization is normal.
>=20
> If I load acme after gnome has started up (with notification area
> enabled), CPU utilization is normal for acme, panel, and notification.
>=20
> High CPU utilization only happens when acme puts the icon in the
> notification area at session startup.

What changed between when it was good, and now?  Have you looked at the
spinning process to see what it might be spinning on?

Joe

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