Bug#425679: gksu: Uses CPU permanently while on the background

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:45 +0200, Javier Kohen wrote:
> I detected some days ago that gksu was constantly using the CPU, even
> after the application it managed had been fully launched and was
> sitting idle. Particularly, I'm running Synaptic now, and strace gives
> the following output repeated at a very high frequency:
[snip]
> It seems the PowerTop project was also recently informed about this
> (see http://www.linuxpowertop.org/known.php#gksu), but I'm still
> openning this report because I haven't seen the bug reported either
> here or on Savannah.

There's a comment here about the code in question,
http://www.bughost.org/pipermail/power/2007-May/000195.html

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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