I have installed the packages from saucy-proposed (and indicator-appmenu manually). I'm fairly sure the main problem is fixed.
I have pinned a terminal running top to the top, and made some test with Sublime Text 3. Opening Sublime makes unity-panel-service use a full core for a good few seconds. Accessing the menu does moderately increase CPU usage for unity-panel-service while it is accessed. Closing the menu makes unity- panel-service use a full core for 1-2 seconds. Same when Sublime is closed. Switching focus back and forth between gnome-terminal and Sublime makes unity-panel-service use a full core for 1-2 seconds. I haven't noticed any prolonged periods of CPU usage, as was the case before. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages, dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage Status in The Application Menu: Fix Committed Status in Application Menu Indicator 13.10 series: Fix Committed Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in Unity: Invalid Status in “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “indicator-appmenu” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gtk+3.0” source package in Saucy: Fix Committed Status in “indicator-appmenu” source package in Saucy: In Progress Bug description: Impact: high CPU/memory usage from unity-panel-service Test case: Open a large image in the GIMP and activate a lot of items from the global menu. Using shortcuts is enough and faster to reproduce this bug (I've always used Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+A). Memory usage of unity- panel-service increases steadily and it uses a lot of CPU shortly after activating the menu items in a short time. Regression potential: check that the menus are stable/working as they should --------- Just going about my business on Ubuntu Raring amd64 on an x230 and I heard the fan kick into action. top showed me that unity-panel-service was consuming all the free cycles on one of my CPUs. I killed it before my machine overheated, so I didn't attach a debugger to see why it was totally pegging out a CPU. I'm not sure if this adds any context, but I was using a LibreOffice spreadsheet and I could not insert a table because the menu had lost it's mind, and then I observed the overly loaded CPU a very short while after that. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/1199877/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp