unity-panel-service constantly consuming ca. 10% cpu

[Marius B. Kotsbak]

unity-panel-service process is constantly consuming ca. 10% of my CPU even when the laptop is idle.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-services 5.10.0-0ubuntu4
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-030400rc2-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,decor,snap,resize,place,workarounds,imgpng,move,compiztoolbox,grid,vpswitch,mousepoll,regex,gnomecompat,expo,session,wall,ezoom,unitymtgrabhandles,fade,scale,unityshell]
Date: Mon Apr 16 23:12:00 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:no_NO:no:nn_NO:nn:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Marius, do you have seconds showing in your datetime indicator? If so then this is a duplicate of bug 813409.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

I don't have seconds display enabled, but I have some extra indicator applications installed.

Also the bug with date not updated when first clicking the time indicator is back...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[jcervilla (jcervilla)]

I have configured the System Load Indicator. After stopping it, unity-panel-service stops consuming CPU and works fine. In classic gnome, System Load Indicator is consuming cpu. So I think this can be a good clue.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Yes, I think that is the cause too.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Sebastien: there is no crash so no backtrace to post.

[Alex Baggott (alex-baggott)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. We have tried to recreate this on the latest release of Ubuntu and cannot reproduce it. This bug is being marked as Invalid. If you believe the problem to still exist in the latest version of Ubuntu, please comment on why that is the case and change the bug status to NEW.

The unity-panel-service process shows 0 % CPU when idle, with or without System Load Indicator running.