[gaim1.5 and 2beta]100% cpu useage when over a dozen tabs are open

I cannot duplicate this with 2b3, what gtk theme are you using? does it go away if you change the theme? are you doing anything funky like playing with xorg's composite stuff?

Luke Schierer wrote:
> I cannot duplicate this with 2b3, what gtk theme are you using? does
> it go away if you change the theme? are you doing anything funky like
> playing with xorg's composite stuff?
>

i'm using the "human" theme on both machines (ubuntu default). Its
followed me through 2 installs on one machine. I dont have anything
(like xgl/dual head) going on the computer i use for chat currently.
I switched to clearlooks (plain switch, not log in/out), and it still
happens. there was almost nothing visible cpu useage wise at 7 irc tabs,
but at 9 it was quite clear.
I'm connected to
irc.gnome.org
irc.oftc.net
irc.freenode.net
msn
jabber (.org.au)
jabber (.org)
jabber (gmail.com - google talk)
icq

The ones with active tabs are freenode and gnome.org. disabling oftc
didnt seem to make much difference.

I just had a thought.
This could actualy be a GTK issue, as i have issues with Firefox when i have over a dozen tabs open, and a few misc issues around the place.
Think it could be a GTK problem, or am i way off course?
kk

Similar problem here. Gaim uses a lot of CPU not when I open many tabs, but when someone uses animated icons. In that conversation, when a send a message, it takes a lot of time to display the text. This does not happen when both don't use animated icons.

All this happens with Gaim 2.0.0+beta3.1-1ubuntu9 (Sorry for my English).

I realized that all this happens when the powernowd service is running. The freq of my CPU is reduced to 800 MHz and that's why all the gnome desktop (principally gaim, as I described above) become slower. If you disable powernowd that's resolved. However it should not happen.

KarlGoetz, do you use powernowd too?

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> KarlGoetz, do you use powernowd too?
>
the daemon may be running, but my cpu doesn't scale.
kk

Is this still a gaim problem?

Using Gaim 2.0.0 beta 6, (included in Feisty), I opened 30 tabs and noticed no dramatic increase in CPU usage. I was able to resize the window and shuffle through the tabs (using the left and right arrows) and everything worked as it should.

I think that this was probably fixed by now.

Marking as Fixed then. Thanks for following up.