Bug#594245: gnome-terminal cpu usage

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 09 septembre 2010 à 06:12 -0700, Greg Orlowski a écrit :
> I'm chiming in to confirm that I'm experiencing the same high cpu
> usage issue with gnome-terminal and that it's a recent regression
> (since about the start of september 2010 -- maybe a week before that).
> 
> I also get high CPU usage with other libvte terminals -- roxterm and
> xfce4-terminal -- although xfce-terminal is not as high. 

I can now reproduce this on my unstable box, with the radeon driver
(which, together with other reports, really excludes a driver issue).

The possible culprits are:
      * cairo 1.8.10-4 → 1.8.10-5 (very likely)
      * xorg-server 2:1.7.7-3 → 2:1.7.7-5
      * gtk+2.0 2.20.1-1 → 2.20.1-1+b1 (very unlikely)
      * freetype 2.4.2-1 → 2.4.2-2 (very unlikely)

If you could test downgrading cairo, that would be nice. I’ll have a
look in the following days, too.

Cheers,
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