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I'm experiencing the same issue. I'm a heavy user of Gimp and Inkscape
and especially Gimp menus become very unresponsive and the whole system
is slow. At some point you can't see any menus at all and I've to drop a
terminal and restart lightdm. Not sure what is the issue, I didn't have
any such problems in Ubuntu 13.04.

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Title:
  unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage

Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project:
  New
Status in Unity:
  In Progress
Status in Unity 7.1 series:
  In Progress
Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “gtk+3.0” source package in Saucy:
  In Progress
Status in “unity” source package in Saucy:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact: high CPU/memory usage from unity-panel-service

  Test case:

  Open a large image in the GIMP and activate a lot of items from the
  global menu. Using shortcuts is enough and faster to reproduce this
  bug (I've always used Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+A). Memory usage of unity-
  panel-service increases steadily and it uses a lot of CPU shortly
  after activating the menu items in a short time.

  Regression potential: check that the menus are stable/working as they
  should

  ---------
  Just going about my business on Ubuntu Raring amd64 on an x230 and I heard the fan kick into action.  top showed me that unity-panel-service was consuming all the free cycles on one of my CPUs.  I killed it before my machine overheated, so I didn't attach a debugger to see why it was totally pegging out a  CPU.

  I'm not sure if this adds any context, but I was using a LibreOffice
  spreadsheet and I could not insert a table because the menu had lost
  it's mind, and then I observed the overly loaded CPU a very short
  while after that.

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