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ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

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Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

Yesterday I upgraded my system, including an upgrade to pidgin 2.5.5-1.
Today when I run Pidgin the CPU goes up to 100%. Is there anyone else having the  same problem?

R.

Last edited by ralvez (2009-06-03 22:27:36)

kendyjm

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Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 12

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

same here.

Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

Did you try disabling all plugins? Also try with a clean config.

psycepa

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Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 45

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

Does your pidging hang up when you run it or when you try to msg someone?

I got some similar problem: Psi problem

drewbug01

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From: chicago

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 85

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

Are you using the Facebook chat plugin, or any non-standard plugins?  I know that Facebook plugin was buggy as hell.
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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

It happened to me the other day too. I also use the facebook plugin. I just closed pidgin and opened it again and it was ok. Hasn't happened again yet (or not that I've noticed anyway)

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ilpianista

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 568

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

do you use pidgin-musictracker? sometimes it sends my CPU @ 100%

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,718

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

I've been watching pidgin for a week now and it behaves just fine.
I do not know where the glitch is, it may be related to the plug ins or some other associated library but right now it is just fine.
I cannot reproduce the problem, so there is no way to troubleshoot it.

Thanks everyone for your ideas and help but for the time being I'm gonna close the thread as there seems not to be a valid point to keep it open.

Thanks again!

R.

SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

I want to pick up  this thread, as this happens to me all the time, rendering Pidgin unusable for me. I disabled every plugin, still it steals all CPU power randomly. Mostly it behaves in a way, that after starting its ok, but leaving Pidgin idle for a while, it consumes 100% CPU and then there is no way to stop that. Interestingly, another user on the same machine using the same Pidgin with similar setup has no problems whatsoever. Starting Pidgin from the terminal, does not reveal anything. Any help appreciated.
ralvez please unmark the thread as not solved.

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AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

you should contact the upstream devs on irc or mailing list. check if a single IM protocoll causes this.

try to find out what process or call is causing the load.  run something like sysprof that to get more informations. maybe rebuild the pkg with debugging symbols.

good luck!

insulae

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From: Sgo del Estero - Argentina

Registered: 2007-06-08

Posts: 52

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

same problem, idle pidgin = 100% CPU. my configuration:
* Arch x86_64
* Xfce
* pidgin 2.5.5
* pidgin plugins = 0
* accounts: 1 MSN, 1Gtalk, 1 Jabber

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Alxe

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From: /home/alex

Registered: 2009-01-20

Posts: 102

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

same problem, idle pidgin = 100% CPU. my configuration:
* Arch x86_64
* Xfce
* pidgin 2.5.5
* pidgin plugins = 0
* accounts: 1 MSN, 1Gtalk, 1 Jabber

Something like that happened to me. It crashed, and then I started it again. CPU went higher, closed pidgin, and ran it again. Now it worked fine.
Tried restarting Pidgin? If it still doesn't work, you might like to wipe the pidigin configs.

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SanskritFritz

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

I guess we have to wait for 2.5.6:
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8868
http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8594

Last edited by SanskritFritz (2009-04-09 06:53:13)

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jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 250

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

There are some many pidgin packages in AUR, ain't there a devel (svn/git) package?

jordz

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Registered: 2006-02-01

Posts: 250

Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

Added the patch that fixes this problem:
http://jordz.nl/files/arch/pidgin.tar.gz

Last edited by jordz (2009-05-05 11:32:54)

SanskritFritz

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Re: Pidgin (CPU @ 100%) [solved]

I confirm, that this problem is solved in Pidgin 2.5.6.

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