OK, I found the culprit: I had thousands of bogus gmail contacts. I deleted them and now everything is fine. Sorry!
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070315 Title: empathy hang at 100% cpu and >3Gig of memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1070315/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs