Intermittent 100% cpu utilization

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 29 April 2007, Andrew Robert wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> I have Ubuntu v7.04 installed on a Dell Inspiron 1000 (2.2Ghz 512M).
>
> Over all it runs just great but I am running into an intermittent issue
> with CPU utilization.
>
> Firefox and Gnome GDesklets run off and consume 100% CPU.
>
> Has anyone run into this before?
>
> Any help you can provide on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Andrew Robert

I have seen this issue with edgy and feisty but I can't really tell you how to 
solve it.    It is a Firefox/java problem and what I did to lessen the 
problem was to determine what page(s) were causing the problem and then kill 
those pages when not looking at them.

Something on a particular page must be sending FFox into orbit.