gnome-panel using way to much CPU

[john]

Hi all,

Gnome-panel is taking way too much CPU. Has anyone else experienced
this or got a fix? Any ideas appreciated.
Snapshot below!

Thanks,

John

top - 11:00:23 up 9 days, 19:01,  6 users,  load average: 8.10, 8.07, 8.08
Tasks: 522 total,   9 running, 513 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.9%us,  0.1%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:  16534092k total, 10964052k used,  5570040k free,   490660k buffers
Swap:  6384632k total,        0k used,  6384632k free,  8551736k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
30675 dubois.e  20   0  245m  14m  10m R   50  0.1   1592:11
gnome-panel
28547 urban.ca  20   0  245m  14m  10m R   50  0.1   1597:58
gnome-panel
30498 odmark.e  20   0  246m  15m  11m R   50  0.1  88:09.22
gnome-panel
26436 hefferna  20   0  246m  15m  11m R   50  0.1   1598:35
gnome-panel
27379 dubois.e  20   0  246m  15m  11m R   50  0.1   1597:02
gnome-panel
29070 mangione  20   0  246m  15m  11m R   50  0.1   1594:32
gnome-panel
30193 urban.ca  20   0  246m  15m  11m R   50  0.1   1597:16
gnome-panel
30824 hefferna  20   0  246m  15m  11m R   50  0.1   1593:04 gnome-pane