[Bug 786933] [NEW] Retrieving contact info for contact notification popup stalls UI for 3 seconds and results in high CPU usage

[sven]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: empathy

Bug seems to be present in Pidgin, too, but not as prominent (often) as
in Empathy, so maybe it is in libpurple?

It does not matter whether full or minimal contact info is selected for
contact list. Moving the mouse over the contact list results in high CPU
usage (50% CPU on my EeePC Atom N450) and stalls Empathy UI (list and
menu) for 3-4 seconds. After that, notification bubble comes up, but
hovering over some other contact afterwards produces same stall again
most of the time.

Happens alsmot everytime mouse pointer is moved into Empathy window.

Regression from Maverick. Never experienced that in Maverick.

Not critical, but very annoying and significantly slowing down my
Desktop work flow. Please fix.

Kind Regards,
Sven

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: empathy 2.34.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 23 12:46:15 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors:
 (nautilus:2579): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_debug_add_log_function: assertion `func != NULL' failed
 (firefox-bin:5212): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_clipboard_set_with_data: assertion `targets != NULL' failed
 (firefox-bin:5212): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_clipboard_get_for_display: assertion `!display->closed' failed
 (firefox-bin:5212): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_clipboard_get_for_display: assertion `!display->closed' failed

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug apport-lpi i386 natty

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Title:
  Retrieving contact info for contact notification popup stalls UI for 3
  seconds and results in high CPU usage