This could be related to registered Pidgin bugs 9927, 10192, 11520 (http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/NNNN) Long known but who knows when is going to be fixed ...
I also experience this behaviour. Most my chats are in ICQ, and some are in XMPP. In my Pidgin I have persistent history storage turned off. But anyway, after some weeks of continuous Pidgin usage, when a number of long chats are collected in Pidgin windows, it gets really sluggish in GUI redraw and high on CPU usage. -- CPU load randomly hits 100%; XMPP random reconnects https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218439 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