Pidgin causing high cpu load

[Andreas]

I'm using oneiric, and

When recieving a message in pidgin the cpu load goes to 100%.
Nealry on every message i receive....
(so i know when someone PM me, as the fan starts whining....)
After focusing the pidgin window the load drops again.

Found a bug in ubuntu (sorry, lost the url) that mentiond a bug in the scroll bar drawing.

And some more reports in the www: it ooks like this bug stating a faukty gtk2 lib version:

https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=19321
and
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652872

The installed gtk2 is

# apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0
libgtk2.0-0:
  Installiert: 2.24.6-0ubuntu5
  Kandidat: 2.24.6-0ubuntu5
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 2.24.6-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and pidgin from their ppa:

# apt-cache policy pidgin
pidgin:
  Installiert: 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1+pidgin1.11.10
  Kandidat: 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1+pidgin1.11.10
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1+pidgin1.11.10 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I'm sorry about the lack of response to your report. Do you still experience this issue in precise or trusty?

[Andreas (andreas-rabus)]

Hi Rolf,

Sorry, forgta about this bug.
The bug vanished (for me) when updating to trusty. And the new laptop
with a fresh trusty install does not show this bug too.

Best regards,

Andreas

Am Do, 18. Sep, 2014 um 12:33 schrieb Rolf Leggewie
<email address hidden>:
> I'm sorry about the lack of response to your report. Do you still
> experience this issue in precise or trusty?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923692
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> Title:
> Pidgin causing high cpu load
>
> Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I'm using oneiric, and
>
> When recieving a message in pidgin the cpu load goes to 100%.
> Nealry on every message i receive....
> (so i know when someone PM me, as the fan starts whining....)
> After focusing the pidgin window the load drops again.
>
> Found a bug in ubuntu (sorry, lost the url) that mentiond a bug in
> the
> scroll bar drawing.
>
> And some more reports in the www: it ooks like this bug stating a
> faukty gtk2 lib version:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=19321
> and
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652872
>
> The installed gtk2 is
>
> # apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0
> libgtk2.0-0:
> Installiert: 2.24.6-0ubuntu5
> Kandidat: 2.24.6-0ubuntu5
> Versionstabelle:
> *** 2.24.6-0ubuntu5 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64
> Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> and pidgin from their ppa:
>
> # apt-cache policy pidgin
> pidgin:
> Installiert: 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1+pidgin1.11.10
> Kandidat: 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1+pidgin1.11.10
> Versionstabelle:
> *** 1:2.10.1-1ubuntu1+pidgin1.11.10 0
> 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pidgin-developers/ppa/ubuntu/
> oneiric/main amd64 Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 1:2.10.0-0ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64
> Packages
>
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