I moved the .purple folder and restarted. Immediately it logged me into my accounts and started to use 100% cpu again. This was odd since it shouldn't have known about my accounts with the .purple directory gone.
I noticed there was a .gaim directory and the .purple had been recreated from it. The log folder was empty (actually a broken symlink) though which proved at least one of my concerns - amassing a large number of log files was not causing the high load. I closed pidgin, removed .purple and .gaim and restarted. I added my accounts back in and tested for a few days and everything is good. I also copied my archive of logs back in and things are still good. I'm not sure how to be sure what the problem is but it's fixed for me now. I kept backups of everything in case something useful can be gleaned. -- Pidgin uses 100% cpu and appears frozen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276480 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
