indicator-applet uses more cpu over time

[Paul Smith]

I have the indicator-applet on my top panel showing CPU and Network. When I first boot, the CPU used by this process is minimal. However as the days go by (I have a desktop and rarely boot it more than once every 2-3 weeks) it uses more and more CPU time. Right now for example my system has been up for 5 days and it's using 11% of my CPU:

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 3208 psmith 20 0 378m 41m 2416 S 11 1.0 501:45.70 indicator-appli

It doesn't seem like the amount of CPU needed by this small applet should increase like this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: indicator-application 0.5.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-35.55-generic 3.2.34
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jan 19 08:58:38 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=rxvt-unicode
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-application
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

Just to mention, this is still happening with my 12.04 release with all updates to date. I have to periodically kill the thing :-/.