I'm experiencing the same issue. I'm a heavy user of Gimp and Inkscape and especially Gimp menus become very unresponsive and the whole system is slow. At some point you can't see any menus at all and I've to drop a terminal and restart lightdm. Not sure what is the issue, I didn't have any such problems in Ubuntu 13.04.
-- 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 “gtk+3.0” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gtk+3.0” source package in Saucy: In Progress Status in “unity” source package in Saucy: Triaged Bug description: Impact: high CPU/memory usage from unity-panel-service Test case: Open a large image in the GIMP and activate a lot of items from the global menu. Using shortcuts is enough and faster to reproduce this bug (I've always used Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Shift+A). Memory usage of unity- panel-service increases steadily and it uses a lot of CPU shortly after activating the menu items in a short time. Regression potential: check that the menus are stable/working as they should --------- 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
