After running xfce4-panel for a little while (seems to vary), it begins to eat up clock cycles until I have seen it consuming 98% of the CPU and then today it finally caused my computer to crash. I can't kill -9 the process or find any way of ending it without rebooting the entire machine. This happens nearly every time I'm in xfce for longer than a few minutes.
Additional information: I'm using Gentoo and installed the x86 ebuild xfce 4.0. After experiencing this problem, I upgraded to the xfce 4.0.1 which was ~x86 at the time but is now stable. It hasn't fixed the problem. Please let me know what information I can pass over.
Suprising, it's prolly an issue with one of the plugins you use. Try removing each plugin one by one until you find the one which is guilty. PS: Please mention what version of xfce you are running, what platform, including OS and HW, etc. plus what config you have what plugins and so on. Such a bug report is fairly useless otherwise. Cheers, Olivier.
Ooops, sorry, I didn't see the additional comments. Olivier.
What version of gtk are you running? Olivier.
I agree with Olivier, this sounds like a plugin problem. Can you tell me what plugins you use? Also it may be helpful if you try removing them one by one, to see if it stops.
Ok. Lets see if I can answer these questions. The Hardware config is a PIII 900Mhz laptop with 256MB ram, 20GB hard drive, 1027x768 screen, and so on. I don't appreciate my bug report being called useless, OLIVER! :) Just kidding. GTK I'm running I believe 2.2.4-r1 (at least that's what Gentoo lists it as). As for plugins, I think you are right. It may very well have been the CPU and memory monitoring plugin, because I believe that is the only plugin that I have removed and haven't seemed to have problems since. Actually, now that I think about it I also removed the network traffic plugin. But those are the only two. Let me know if you would like me to try anything to help you figure it out, etc. Xantius
Well, you could try adding them back (one at the time) and see if the problem returns. Also you may want to check if you are running the latest versions of the plugins. PS "1027x768 screen", interesting ... ;-)
Ok. Well, I added back on the Network monitor plugin and now just barely with my computer running XFce4 and GAIM and nothing else, my system fan kicked on, and I didn't think anything of it. Then a few minutes later when I tried to use it, it was locked up tight. I'm now going to remove the network plugin and add the cpu and memory and see if that does it. And YES, my resolution is 1027x768. :) (the screen has the side broken so it is a little bent back to show an extra 3 pixels!
> the screen has the side broken so it is a little ^^^^^^^^^^^ That's the cause of the bug :) Olivier.
It does appear as though the screen was the problem. Wait! That makes no sense! :-P No, in reality, it does appear to be the network traffic plugin that was causing the problems. I put in everything except that now, including the CPU/Memory/Swap plugin that I thought was the initial problem, and it's working fine even over long periods of time. Just thought I'd let you know.
Sounds very strange. Can you run wormuon (the codebase for the netload plugin) from http://www.raisdorf.net/wormulon over a long period of time. Also, can you run fuser /proc/net/dev while the problem occures?
Closing this because of lack of activity.
No reply => no bug ;-)