I have this too on Karmic 64bit, also if I launch manually, and at random points.
BTW, regarding the remark from comment #1, "the dock will also stall for some amount of seconds at arbitrary occurrences": This seems to be down to the battery docklet. At least it has stopped since I deactivated it. See LP#494898. -- GNOME-Do uses 200% (two cores) of CPU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/450852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs