Saw the same thing, but i _do_ think this is a pidgin issue, as I see
the process in status 'TASK_UNINTERRUPTABLE' causing kill not to have
(the desired) effect.
Attaching output for 'ps', lsof and apt-cache.
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r...@primerib:~# uname -a
Linux primerib 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Fri Jun 5 10:34:09 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
r...@primerib:~# pidgin --version
Pidgin 2.5.2
r...@primerib:~# sudo apt-cache depends pidgin
pidgin
Depends: gconf2
Depends: libatk1.0-0
Depends: libc6
Depends: libcairo2
Depends: libdbus-1-3
Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2
Depends: libglib2.0-0
Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0
Depends: libgtk2.0-0
Depends: libgtkspell0
Depends: libice6
Depends: liblaunchpad-integration1
Depends: libpango1.0-0
Depends: libpurple0
Depends: libsm6
Depends: libstartup-notification0
Depends: libx11-6
Depends: libxss1
Depends: perl
Depends: <perlapi-5.8.8>
perl-base
Depends: pidgin-data
Depends: pidgin-data
Suggests: evolution-data-server
|Suggests: gnome-panel
|Suggests: kicker
Suggests: docker
Suggests: libsqlite3-0
Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
Recommends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
Conflicts: gaim
Conflicts: pidgin-data
Replaces: gaim
Replaces: pidgin-data
Note: I removed gnome-panel as I did not like it interfering with awn.
** Attachment added: "output for 'ps', lsof and apt-cache"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/28369877/buginfo.txt
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HARDY -- Pidgin uses 100% CPU, cannot be killed with kill -9
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373273
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