Comment #27 on issue 11 by klu... at gmail.com: Abnormally high cpu load on X http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=11 Here's an ltrace of xmobar running under my configuration. I'm pretty sure ltrace caused xmobar to crash after a while, so take it with a grain of salt. -Eric Attachments: xmobar.trace 2.9 KB