I realized that all this happens when the powernowd service is running. The freq of my CPU is reduced to 800 MHz and that's why all the gnome desktop (principally gaim, as I described above) become slower. If you disable powernowd that's resolved. However it should not happen.
-- [gaim1.5 and 2beta]100% cpu useage when over a dozen tabs are open https://launchpad.net/bugs/45562 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
