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dyle71

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Registered: 2011-07-11

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Terminal App in XFCE-panel consumes 100% CPU

#!/bin/hi *

I have a seperated xfce-panel which contains a list of launchers on the desktop's right edge. Within the list of launchers I have a "terminal --geometry=140x40".

Every now and then exactly this app is started in the background, consuming up to 100% CPU (look at PID 6490 and PPID 5785):

dyle@semirhage ~ $ top | head
top - 15:13:00 up 31 min,  1 user,  load average: 1.15, 1.11, 0.92
Tasks: 186 total,   2 running, 184 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 24.5%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 72.3%id,  1.8%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   4050948k total,  1744204k used,  2306744k free,   145020k buffers
Swap:  8193112k total,        0k used,  8193112k free,   570636k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                                        
 6490 dyle      20   0  586m  30m  19m R  101  0.8   4:02.62 terminal                                                                       
 5660 root      20   0  150m  51m  20m S   12  1.3   1:39.42 X                                                                              
 5889 dyle      20   0  386m 103m  25m S    6  2.6   1:00.33 compiz                                                                         
dyle@semirhage ~ $ ps -eF | grep 6490
dyle      6490  5785 95 150042 30720  3 15:08 ?        00:04:13 terminal --geometry 140x40
dyle      6542  6502  0  2184   896   0 15:13 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --colour=auto 6490
dyle@semirhage ~ $ ps -eF | grep 5785
dyle      5785  5771  0 162209 46980  1 14:43 ?        00:00:04 xfce4-panel --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 219d46c8b-8161-4e57-addb-49f45add39ec
dyle      5797  5785  0 48855 21716   1 14:43 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin  15 14680095 cpugraph CPU Graph Graphical representation of the CPU load 
dyle      5799  5785  0 48852 23092   0 14:43 ?        00:00:06 /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-netload-plugin  23 14680096 netload Network Monitor Show network traffic 
dyle      5800  5785  0 151413 32528  1 14:43 ?        00:00:01 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 14680097 systray Notification Area Area where notification icons appear 
dyle      5801  5785  0 51463 23556   0 14:43 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/xfce4/panel-plugins/xfce4-mount-plugin  22 14680098 xfce4-mount-plugin Mount devices Shows all mountable devices and (un)mounts them on request. 
dyle      5802  5785  0 51051 24208   0 14:43 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/wrapper /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel-plugins/libdatetime.so 16 14680099 datetime DateTime Date and Time plugin with a simple calendar 
dyle      5968  5785  3 112018 212632 0 14:44 ?        00:01:00 /usr/lib64/opera/opera
dyle      6490  5785 95 150042 30720  3 15:08 ?        00:04:21 terminal --geometry 140x40
dyle      6501  5785  0 150100 30712  1 15:09 ?        00:00:00 terminal --geometry 140x40
dyle      6508  5785  0 150100 30680  1 15:09 ?        00:00:00 terminal --geometry 140x40
dyle      6544  6502  0  2183   900   0 15:13 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --colour=auto 5785

Obviously the xcfe-panel starts some launchers. However the terminal window (PID 6490) is _not_ visible though it consumes up to 100% CPU. If I don't kill the process by myself, the panel will start launching other terminal windows as well. I can't pinpoint why this happens, and it happens only with terminal apps. I tried it with gnome-terminal as well. However, I do have other launchers in the panel like Opera and Thunderbird, Thunar and gVim, which are not launched.

Anyone any ideas?

BTW: I'm currently running the latest Git-Sources

$ xfce4-panel --version
xfce4-panel 4.9.0git-90e1508 (Xfce 4.10)

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Please report bugs to <http://bugzilla.xfce.org/>.

Last edited by dyle71 (2011-08-05 13:19:08)

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