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[Bruno Girin <brunogirin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The "New Message" box is very CPU intensive, to the point that when
typing a message, it takes a noticeable amount of time for characters to
register. This impacts the rest of the computing experience as the mouse
movements become jagged and the whole UI is less responsive than normal.
A quick check using System Monitor shows that when the "New Message" box
is open, whatever is running consumes more that a full core on an Intel
i5 processor (see attached screenshot).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start the system monitor to keep an eye on performance,
2. Click the envelope in the panel and select Broadcast / Messages to open Gwibber,
3. Click on the "New Message" button,
4. The "New Message" entry box opens,
5. Start typing in the box.

Expected behaviour:
The new message box should allow the user to enter a message without any negative performance impact.

Actual behaviour:
When the new message box is open, CPU usage shoots up and stays very high irrespective of whether the user enters any data in the box. As a result, data entry is visibly jagged and so are mouse movements and anything else related to using the machine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gwibber 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct  2 16:46:02 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-14 (17 days ago)

** Affects: gwibber (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug apport-lpi oneiric running-unity

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864698

Title:
  Gwibber's "New Message" box is very CPU intensive

Status in “gwibber” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The "New Message" box is very CPU intensive, to the point that when
  typing a message, it takes a noticeable amount of time for characters
  to register. This impacts the rest of the computing experience as the
  mouse movements become jagged and the whole UI is less responsive than
  normal. A quick check using System Monitor shows that when the "New
  Message" box is open, whatever is running consumes more that a full
  core on an Intel i5 processor (see attached screenshot).

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Start the system monitor to keep an eye on performance,
  2. Click the envelope in the panel and select Broadcast / Messages to open Gwibber,
  3. Click on the "New Message" button,
  4. The "New Message" entry box opens,
  5. Start typing in the box.

  Expected behaviour:
  The new message box should allow the user to enter a message without any negative performance impact.

  Actual behaviour:
  When the new message box is open, CPU usage shoots up and stays very high irrespective of whether the user enters any data in the box. As a result, data entry is visibly jagged and so are mouse movements and anything else related to using the machine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gwibber 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Oct  2 16:46:02 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gwibber
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-14 (17 days ago)

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