yiff-server uses up too much CPU when idle

[Robert Persson]

I noticed that yiff was taking up quite a lot of CPU time, often going above 1% on my Core2Duo 1.5GHz. I don't know for certain what it was doing on my machine. It seems that searchandrescue uses it, but it is not a dependency of searchandrescue as such. I never play that game, so this server has been making a big hit on my machine's performance for no benefit whatsoever.

Something needs to be done to fix this, whether that be to fix the server itself, to prevent it running by default without the user's knowledge, or to prevent it being installed unncessarily.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 29 22:06:51 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: yiff-server (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.152-rt
SourcePackage: yiff
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-rt x86_64

[Mark (nanite)]

I can confirm this, though in my case I found yiff taking up 7% of CPU resources (as reported by the top command).