Anagramarama maxes out processor

[Rod McFarland]

Binary package hint: anagramarama

Cpu(s): 49.9%us, 2.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 47.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3088272k total, 1902124k used, 1186148k free, 184380k buffers
Swap: 2996080k total, 0k used, 2996080k free, 796904k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 9655 rod 20 0 95056 12m 5236 R 94 0.4 0:30.20 anagramarama
 5912 root 20 0 416m 73m 16m S 7 2.4 30:43.75 Xorg
 6360 rod 20 0 220m 12m 8808 S 1 0.4 11:12.31 gkrellm

rod@farnsworth:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
rod@farnsworth:~$ apt-cache policy anagramarama
anagramarama:
  Installed: 0.3-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 0.3-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 0.3-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://ftp.estpak.ee intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Expected: Not burning my lap
Instead: Holy cow, my lap is burning

[jason bruce (jbruce12000)]

I had the same thing happen. After moving a few letters, sound stops working and boom the process pegs.

[Talvaran Rabidwolf (talrw)]

It looks like this issue has been fixed in a later version of Anagramarama. (https://code.google.com/p/anagramarama/issues/detail?id=1&can=1). It is likely if the newer version were packaged this would fix the issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.