SOLVED! - cpu usage too high, entire system sluggish, top is messed up

[Johannes Schill]

Jorge Tomé Hernando wrote:
> Solution was indeed easier.
> Adding "noapic" to the boot parameters the problem has totally disappear.
>
>   
It didnt work for me. I added noapic and it's still between 20-80% all 
the time.

My laptop is a dell inspiron 6000 with an Intel Celeron M360 (1.4Ghz 1MB 
L2 cache 400MHz FSB), 2gb ram and 128MB shared graphics memory (intel).

Johannes