I can confirm it as well for ubuntu 7.10. I can add that the problem started to occur on my pc after I
1. did place the default low panel to the left and 2. changed its behaviour to autohide:yes After that, gnome-panel will slowly eat up more and more cpu and memory, wasting 170mb RAM + 50% @2 cores after 10 minutes. Information is from System>System Monitor. -- gnome-panel eats 50% cpu for half an hour and flickers https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/52405 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs