From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030701 Galeon/1.3.7 Description of problem: After logging in to an up to date rawhide system, the rhn-applet appears to cause problems with X, notification-area-applet, and gnome-panel, such that those three plus rhn-applet eat once entire CPU: 99 processes: 95 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 31.1% user 36.2% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 32.0% idle CPU1 states: 36.0% user 30.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 33.4% idle Mem: 515124k av, 233080k used, 282044k free, 0k shrd, 18920k buff 135204k active, 43776k inactive Swap: 2056300k av, 15952k used, 2040348k free 97316k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 8920 root 25 0 285M 13M 272M R 38.7 2.6 1:23 1 X 11567 tjb 25 0 16648 6428 15760 R 35.2 1.2 0:10 1 notification- 11522 tjb 25 0 25048 13M 21220 R 31.9 2.6 0:11 1 rhn-applet-gu 11463 tjb 21 0 20920 11M 17816 S 26.1 2.2 0:07 1 gnome-panel 11603 tjb 16 0 4244 1232 3956 R 1.3 0.2 0:00 0 top 1 root 15 0 1496 140 1348 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 0 init 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 ksoftirqd/0 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 migration/1 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 ksoftirqd/1 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 events/0 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 events/1 8 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:01 0 kblockd/0 9 root 5 -10 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:01 1 kblockd/1 10 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 kirqd As soon as I click the applet in the gnome-panel notification area, the CPU usage drops to normal levels. I've seen this problem on four different systems I run rawhide on including single CPU systems and SMP systems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhn-applet-2.0.10-4, gnome-panel-2.3.7-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in with rhn-applet in your notification area 2. 3. Actual Results: CPU level is high, being used by X, gnome-panel, notification-area-applet, and rhn-applet. Expected Results: CPU level is low. Additional info: This only started happening recently, maybe in the last week.
The notification-area-applet is new stuff. I didn't changed the applet. My bet is that it's related to the notification-area-applet. Do you still have the same problem without it ? If yes the bug is in rhn_applet or one of the components it uses, if no, well it means the notification-area-applet is not yet stable, the bug should go there. Daniel
I can't have the rhn-applet without the notification-area-applet. If I log in and then kill the rhn-applet, the CPU drops back to normal. As an additional step, restarting the rhn-applet by hand does not cause the high CPU load again. So it seems like some type of rhn-applet/notification-area-applet init problem.
Do you still have the problem with rhn-applet-2.0.10-5 that you can find on http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/ Daniel
Yes, no better. I just noticed that I don't even have to click on the applet to make it stop eating CPU, I just move the mouse over it and it stops. The tooltips seem to make it go away.
Can you also try rhn-applet-2.0.10-6 also at http://people.redhat.com/~veillard/ The problem might have been introduced with a major revision of GTK python bindings. This may fix the problem. Also do you use a specific non-US locale ? (I doubt it but it's one of the thing who changed recently in rhn-applet). Daniel
rhn-applet-2.0.10-6 seems to fix this issue for me.
Also, I might note (can't speak for reporter) that I'm not using a specific non-US locale.
Okay, now if Thomas can provide feedback that this fixes the problem he saw that would be perfect ! thanks for the report, Daniel
It doesn't fix it for me. I'm starting to think this may be a panel problem. It seems that I don't even need to move the mouse over the rhn-applet to get the CPU to go down. I just need to let the bottom panel get focus. After logging in, it gets focus just by moving the mouse over it because the top panel already has focus. I've attached a screen shot.
Created attachment 94292 [details] Screenshot of initial login with high CPU load
And no, I don't have a non-US locale.
FWIW, the high CPU utilization returned for me today as well. :(
This appears fixed in the latest gnome-panel/rhn-applet (rhn-applet-2.0.11-2/gnome-panel-2.4.0-1).
Anyone still seeing this? It looks fixed here
WFM. The reporter says he's cool, too, so I think this should be closed.
There have been some bugfixes done to the applet <-> notification area code, the fix is likely to have come as a side effect of that more general fix (avoiding multiple socket connections), thanks for reporting back and closing it, Daniel