On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Sergio Llorente wrote: > gnome-panel starts consuming 75% or more of the CPU and becomes > unresponsive after having worked for a random number of hours. > > The problem started when the testing Debian distribution was upgraded one > week ago. > > I do not know how to reproduce the problem. The program "gnome-panel" begin > to eat almost all CPU suddenly, after having worked for many hours. After > killing "gnome-panel", other process seem to work perfectly.
Can you create a new user on your system and check whether it happens for the new user as well? -- Loïc Minier