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

** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Gnome panel processes run at 100% CPU causing undue system load.

Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  lsb_release -rd reports:
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:	11.04

  apt-cache policy gnome-panel reports:
  gnome-panel:
    Installed: 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.5
    Candidate: 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.5
    Version table:
   *** 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.5 0
          500 http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/archive.ubuntu.com/ natty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.3 0
          500 http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/archive.ubuntu.com/ natty/main amd64 Packages

  Sometimes one or many gnome-panel processes start using 100% CPU.
  This causes the load to increase, and system responsiveness to
  decrease.  I have to manually kill these processes to restore the
  system to 'normal' operation.  In this case the load will return to
  below 1.0.

  Output from 'top' shows:

  top - 14:08:22 up 1 day, 22:18,  3 users,  load average: 5.04, 5.19, 4.81
  Tasks: 246 total,   7 running, 238 sleeping,   0 stopped,   1 zombie
  Cpu(s): 51.8%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 46.0%id,  1.1%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
  Mem:   8186684k total,  8135528k used,    51156k free,    14344k buffers
  Swap:  8384508k total,    33812k used,  8350696k free,  4717396k cached

    PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+    TIME COMMAND
   3618 ccollins  20   0  363m  16m  10m R  100  0.2   1663:08  27,43 gnome-panel
   3031 ccollins  20   0  355m  15m 9.8m R  100  0.2   2694:52  44,54 gnome-panel
   4350 ccollins  20   0  363m  15m  10m R  100  0.2   1599:37  26,39 gnome-panel
  13405 ccollins  20   0  356m  15m  11m R  100  0.2   1236:27  20,36 gnome-panel

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gnome-panel 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu6.5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Aug 24 14:04:24 2011
  GConfNonDefault:
   /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list=[trashapplet_screen0,workspace_switcher_screen0,window_list_screen0,show_desktop_button_screen0,indicator_applet_screen0,notification_area_screen0,applet_0,applet_1,applet_2,applet_3,applet_4,applet_5,applet_6,applet_7,applet_8,applet_9,applet_10,applet_11,applet_12,applet_13,applet_14,applet_15,applet_16,applet_17,applet_18,applet_19]
   /apps/panel/general/object_id_list=[browser_launcher_screen0,menu_bar_screen0,object_0,object_1,object_2,object_3,object_4,object_5,object_6,object_7,object_10,object_8,object_9]
   /apps/panel/general/toplevel_id_list=[bottom_panel_screen0,top_panel_screen0]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-panel
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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