cpu at 100%

[Nicolò Chieffo]

I'm running maverick i386, and I installed gm-notify.
I have it since months, without any problems, but after a recent update (I think this week, or maybe last week) in some unknown scenarios gm-notify.py starts to take the processor busy at 100%.
After a kill and a process re-launch I can use it normally.

How can I debug a python app? It must be stuck in a loop!

[kyleabaker (kyleabaker)]

Confirmed. I'm running maverick x86_64 with the same issue.

[kyleabaker (kyleabaker)]

I've traced the cpu spike back to the first instant that the user clicks the mail inbox label to open it.

The exact error occurs in the gm-notify file in the labelClick method on the line (on or around line 209):
subprocess.call([get_executable_path("xdg-open"), url])

I'm still looking into a way to fix it, but now that I've found it maybe we can find a fix more quickly.

[kyleabaker (kyleabaker)]

I just added "import webbrowser" to the top and replaced the mentioned subprocess.call() with:

webbrowser.open(url)

...and it still begins to take up 100% cpu, so I'm out of ideas.

[Alexander Hungenberg (alexander-hungenberg-gmail)]

interesting... unfortunately I'm not able to test this because I don't have maverick running.

Nevertheless I think this problem is related to the underlying libs and not gm-notify itself because it worked seamless before. If you have any ideas or related bug reports it would be great :-)

[kyleabaker (kyleabaker)]

@Alexander Hungenberg
I've been looking into a way to limit cpu usage, but have had no success getting it to work yet. There is an example for this on StackOverflow..
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1689505/python-ulimit-and-nice-for-subprocess-call-subprocess-popen