id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc 90 100% cpu usage on some systems - twisted POLLIN Antoine Martin Antoine Martin "The pygtk bug is [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640738 here] I had originally created a twisted bug [http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4829 here] - but the problem is not in twisted. And here is the Fedora bug: [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660137 660137] Gentoo bug: [http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353599 353599] Ubuntu bugs: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pygtk/+bug/664920 664920] and [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pygtk/+bug/707313 707313] Debian already has a patch for squeeze (against 2.17.0-4): [http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/pygtk/2.17.0-4/60_pygtk-wakeupfd-fix.patch pygtk-wakeupfd-fix.patch] So, I believe we should just leave it to the distributors to ship patched versions of the libraries we rely on rather than trying to workaround the issue (not even sure it is possible to do so) " defect closed critical 0.9.2 Client wontfix