CPU usage very high after upgrade to 9.10

[Faizan Kazi]

I'm not sure why... but "gnome-system-monitor" is taking up over 40 percent
of my CPU time/usage... its super heating my laptop and i really dont want
it to die of exhaustion.

this has been going on ever since i upgraded my ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10
yesterday. its been giving me trouble for a day, despite multiple restarts.

Here is an image of the problem: (NOTE: i do not keep the system monitor
window open continuously.

http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5930/highcpuusage.png


Oh and my harddisk is always running!!! :s its always writing or reading
something from the harddisk... what is it doing???

Regards,
Fez
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