[Bug 70882] gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1 sluggish send message and crash on trace

[theprimer]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gaim

high cpu utilization and sluggish sending messages..maybe because of
animoticons???

below a crash after some minutes it was debugging..

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(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal        Stop	Print	Pass to program	Description
SIG33         No	No	Yes		Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gaim 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1220896576 (LWP 8245)]
ALSA: underrun, at least 0ms.
ALSA: underrun, at least 0ms.
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Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
[Switching to Thread -1220896576 (LWP 8245)]
0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
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** Affects: gaim (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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gaim 2.0.0 beta 3.1 sluggish send message and crash on trace
https://launchpad.net/bugs/70882