Okay, first of all, deactivating vino immediately brought my CPU back to normal. So that's good; we know what caused the problem. :)
Here's the output from vino-server: 10/03/2009 21:36:07 Autoprobing TCP port in (all) network interface 10/03/2009 21:36:07 Listening IPv{4,6}://*:5900 10/03/2009 21:36:07 Autoprobing selected port 5900 10/03/2009 21:36:07 Advertising security type: 'TLS' (18) 10/03/2009 21:36:07 Advertising authentication type: 'VNC Authentication' (2) 10/03/2009 21:36:07 Advertising security type: 'VNC Authentication' (2) 10/03/2009 21:37:43 [IPv6] Got connection from client Drewbuntu 10/03/2009 21:37:43 other clients: It did not crash and, as you can see, I connected through Vinagre/Remote Desktop Viewer. I re-enabled vino in the Remote Desktop preferences and immediately the CPU jumped. What's weird is that gconfd shows a pretty steady CPU usage; gnome-session is around 2-3%, gconfd is at 1%. Related? ** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- Consumes all CPU, logs a lot of output https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/340515 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-session in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs