Is this still happening for you? I'm not able to reproduce it. 'ps' shows me friends-service running with 0.0% CPU on the latest mako image. (and I have also not set up any accounts)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to friends in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1248210 Title: friends-service running at 3% cpu on idle system Status in “friends” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The service is always running, consuming 2.5 to 3% of the CPU on a continuous basis Mako running latest trusty build 11 friends 0.2.0+14.04.20131103-0ubuntu1 I have not set up any accounts To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/friends/+bug/1248210/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

