Comment 50 for bug 44196

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Steve Peters (steve-fisharerojo) wrote : Re: [Bug 44196] Re: gnome-cups-icon uses 100% CPU

Agreed. Its time to fix this problem.

Steve

On 11/5/07, Peter Belew <email address hidden> wrote:
> I observed this on one of my 6.06 LTS systems a few days ago - running
> top showed that gnome-cups-icon was using 100% or nearly 100% of the
> CPU.
>
> While there is a known workaround (deleting or renaming gnome-cups-
> icon), I feel that this should be fixed in this LTS release ASAP, since
> this IS an LTS release with many months of bugfixing support ahead of
> it. This is a bug that can cause severe degradation of system
> performance. I run 6.06 LTS on some systems precisely because I expect
> them to be stable.
>
> Since apparently a bug fix exists for later releases, I would expect
> that a backport of this fix would be feasible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
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> gnome-cups-icon uses 100% CPU
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