Comment 10 for bug 565749

I have this problem in Ubuntu 11.10. While behind a proxy, I open Empathy, which is unable to connect. Processor usage goes to 94% and the process using it is Telepathy-Gabble. I kill it but after a couple of minutes it is running again.

The major annoyance for me is that on my laptop this reduces battery life from 3 hours to a mere hour and a half or so.