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Severe CPU Usage Issue
Status:
RESOLVED: WORKSFORME
Priority:
Very High
Severity:
critical
Product:
Xfce4-terminal
Component:
General

Comments

Description zero-one 2012-05-16 02:02:46 CEST
About a week or two ago, Terminal started causing X to consume massive amounts of CPU power, resulting in my machine slowing to a crawl. I have no logs that show abnormal behavior, but a quick look at htop while starting up Terminal makes it clear that it's causing the problem.

I'm running Arch Linux, with xmonad as my window manager.
Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2012-07-28 16:08:12 CEST
I'm seeing the same in my Mageia Cauldron (the development version).
Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2012-07-28 21:50:06 CEST
Just tell me which info is needed and I'll try to provide it.
Comment 3 Jani Välimaa 2012-07-29 08:49:48 CEST
Finally found out what's causing the high CPU load:

If there's BackgroundMode=TERMINAL_BACKGROUND_IMAGE in config, but no background image defined.
Comment 4 Mike Massonnet editbugs 2012-08-01 20:17:31 CEST
Hello Jani,

Thank you for the info, can you also provide the copy of the terminalrc file when the issue is visible. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Terminal/terminalrc

Regards,
Mike
Comment 5 Jani Välimaa 2012-08-01 21:09:10 CEST
Created attachment 4575 
config

See the attached file.

This is easy to reproduce. First remove the whole BackgroundMode line from the config file. Then choose Terminal to use a background image from the settings, but don't choose any backgound image to use and close the settings window.
Comment 6 Mike Massonnet editbugs 2012-08-01 22:57:38 CEST
Thanks for the information :) I can reproduce with your config file and the steps.
Comment 7 Igor editbugs 2016-08-05 17:37:28 CEST
Can anyone reproduce it on 0.6.90 or git version? I'm not seeing this issue.
Comment 8 Igor editbugs 2016-11-28 12:13:50 CET
Cannot reproduce.

Bug #8890

Reported by:
zero-one
Reported on: 2012-05-16
Last modified on: 2016-11-28

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config (1.10 KB, text/plain)
2012-08-01 21:09 CEST , Jani Välimaa
no flags

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