I found another simple method to make unity-panel-service eat 100% CPU: 1. Open Sublime Text 3. 2. Switch keyboard layout fast many times.
Keyboard indicator works at first, but then starts to lag behind and stops switching (keyboard layout is still switched, so it's only indicator). While indicator hangs unity-panel-service eats 100% CPU. This started after 13.10 upgrade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199877 Title: unity-panel-service memory leak and 100% CPU usage Status in The Ubuntu Power Consumption Project: New Status in Unity: In Progress Status in Unity 7.1 series: In Progress Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Just going about my business on Ubuntu Raring amd64 on an x230 and I heard the fan kick into action. top showed me that unity-panel- service was consuming all the free cycles on one of my CPUs. I killed it before my machine overheated, so I didn't attach a debugger to see why it was totally pegging out a CPU. I'm not sure if this adds any context, but I was using a LibreOffice spreadsheet and I could not insert a table because the menu had lost it's mind, and then I observed the overly loaded CPU a very short while after that. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-consumption/+bug/1199877/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp