[Bug 348492] [NEW] Trivial FF activity causes X server high CPU

[Bob Gotthardt]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Running lattest Ubuntu 8.10 and FF.
Also, attached log of previous Top excerpts.

Below of present state:
bobgott at dv6809:~$ top

top - 11:11:44 up  1:11,  2 users,  load average: 1.22, 1.36, 1.31
Tasks: 134 total,   3 running, 131 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 48.9%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 49.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3023236k total,   997924k used,  2025312k free,    26664k buffers
Swap:  4393768k total,        0k used,  4393768k free,   313432k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
 5483 root      20   0  169m  51m  13m R   73  1.7  45:58.55 Xorg               
 6095 bobgott   20   0  775m 227m  31m R   22  7.7  19:07.21 firefox            
 6407 bobgott   20   0  210m  26m  15m S    5  0.9   1:02.97 gnome-system-mo    
 5855 bobgott   20   0  265m  33m  14m S    1  1.1   0:17.40 compiz.real        
    1 root      20   0  4100  896  608 S    0  0.0   0:01.06 init               
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd           
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/0        
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0        
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0         
    6 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/1        
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.46 ksoftirqd/1        
    8 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.02 events/0           
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.08 events/1           
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.04 khelper            
   49 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0      
   50 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/1      
bobgott at dv6809:~$ 

bobgott at dv6809:~$ uname -a
Linux dv6809 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
bobgott at dv6809:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic x86_64

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Trivial FF activity causes X server high CPU
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