gnome-cups-icon 100% processor usage

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 04 Sep 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> I was monitoring with xrestop (on the server sudo apt-get install
> xrestop).  On a running client when logged in open a terminal and run
> xrestop.  Then fire up firefox and watch the memory used by firefox
> climb, fast, then hang.  When it freezes you can see the last amount used
> before hanging.  
> 
> This appears to be due to firefox caching pixmaps to X.  We need a hack
> for that and the problem should go away.  I'm using Opera in the interim.

Have you reported a bug on this?  It seems like the firefox guys should be
made aware of it.

Gavin