Bug 37051

Summary:	telepath-butterfly uses 100% CPU, causing laptop to overheat
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Jonathan Lumb <jonolumb>
Component:	butterfly	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	aagaande
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
See Also:	https://launchpad.net/bugs/544630
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Description Jonathan Lumb 2011-05-10 01:20:29 UTC

Empathy Version: 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
Telepath Butterfly Version: 0.5.15-1
Ubuntu Natty 11.04

When I use MSN in Empathy, sometimes the client has problems logging in, at which point the CPU usage of the telepathy-butterfly process promptly rises to 100% and stays at 100% until it is manually killed. Whilst I am unsure of the exact cause of this problem, I have noticed that it can be triggered quite easily by opening Empathy, waiting for login, suspending the computer, then waking up from suspend.

This bug could be especially pernicious for laptop users such as myself - I've already had core temperatures of 80°C+ when I've left my room unaware that the process had gone haywire - and was slowly cooking my computer!

This bug has actually been around for a while, there is a downstream Ubuntu bug filed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-butterfly/+bug/544630

Thanks for taking the time to look into this.

Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 19:47:29 UTC

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