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gnome-cups-manager package

gnome-cups-icon takes up way too much CPU

Bug #45595 reported by Steve Peters
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #44196: gnome-cups-icon uses 100% CPU. Edit Remove
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gnome-cups-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-cups-manager

When investigating a sudden loss in performance, a quick look at top to see what was happening. The answer of obvious.
  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
26815 steve 16 0 37908 7884 6196 S 16.6 1.0 5319:19 gnome-cups-icon

At 16.6% of the CPU used, gnome-cups-icon is using way too much CPU for what it is doing.

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edschofield (schofield) wrote :

This is a duplicate of bug #45421.

I can confirm that gnome-cups-icon sometimes eats CPU cycles. On my system (with Dapper) it's 100% right now. I've just done a dist-upgrade, which installed new versions of gnome-panel , gnome-panel-data, and update-manager, among others. Killing gnome-panel doesn't help, but killing the renegade gnome-cups-icon process does ...

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

Rejecting as duplicate. Feel free to report any other bugs that you find.

Changed in gnome-cups-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Nikolaus Rath (nikratio) wrote :

Remarked as duplicate of bug #44196 as that bug contains most information.

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