I am having similar problems: novosirj 16785 1 0 12:07 ? 00:01:13 empathy novosirj 31955 1 9 16:10 ? 00:00:27 /usr/lib/empathy/empathy-chat
So that would indicate to me that the app has been running 4 hours or so as it's now 16:15 here. Empathy frequently turns up in a "top" listing, sometimes between 10-20% CPU. I also noticed this turning up around the time I upgraded to precise. Incidentally, while gathering the debug log, the debugger crashed. :-P ** Attachment added: "empathy Debug log of All" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1006197/+attachment/3207131/+files/All-28-06-12_16-19-01.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006197 Title: Empathy is an insane memory hog Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Using empathy makes my system practically unusable. It is the tree- trunk that breaks the camel's back. I do have several accounts configured, but most are disabled. The only ones enabled are one jabber account and one google talk account. Disabled are facebook, aol, yahoo, bonjour/zeroconf/rendezvous, and a couple more jabber accounts. Empathy takes an age to start up (and the window is greyed while it does so), individual chats take an age or fail completely to start, and looking at top output, it's pretty clear why: top - 14:38:26 up 5 days, 1:30, 11 users, load average: 1.23, 1.33, 1.36 Tasks: 265 total, 1 running, 261 sleeping, 0 stopped, 3 zombie Cpu(s): 14.9%us, 6.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 78.1%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Mem: 4030516k total, 3775940k used, 254576k free, 62624k buffers Swap: 1952764k total, 1218700k used, 734064k free, 500484k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 30634 nwp 20 0 1939m 705m 23m S 0 17.9 0:56.23 empathy 16872 nwp 20 0 2018m 271m 30m S 0 6.9 2:28.71 evolution 23101 nwp 20 0 3167m 237m 18m S 9 6.0 15:58.82 empathy-chat For a relatively minor component of a running desktop system, that kind of memory usage is completely inappropriate. It's not even as if it (empathy) has been running for a long time, as I regularly have to kill it to be able to use some other part of the system. I have no idea why it takes so much, but please please please make it stop! - I've been evangelising empathy for years now, and I'd hate to have to eat humble pie and go back to pidgin ;-) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed May 30 14:39:02 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-30 (29 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1006197/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
