Gnome panel hogging all of system resources!

What's up with this? Why might gnome panel be using so much CPU? This started today. Here's the screeny:
Might it have anything to do with the fact that I did "init 3" then "init 5" to restart X?
Last edited by trusktr (2010-08-13 10:39:21)

quigybo wrote:Its a new feature in GNOME, it hogs all remaining resources and doesnt let anything non-GNOME run
$ pacman -Rcns gnome
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
$ sudo pacman -Rcns gnome
error: you are not allowed to remove gnome
$ sudo pacman -Rcns gnome
error: still not allowed
$ sudo pacman -Rcns gnome
error: you really must hate gnome! well, I'm keeping it installed.
$ sudo pacman -Rcns gnome
error: I'm not listening!

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