Constant high cpu usage

[Keith Clark]

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 16:57 -0400, Keith Clark wrote:
> I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor with 4 GB of RAM running Ubuntu
> 9.04 and my CPU usage is consistently close to 100%.  I've tried turning
> off Compiz, but that makes no difference.
> 

> 
> When I am logged out of the machine, I can log in via SSH and run TOP
> and my system just idles along fine with little CPU usage.  It is only
> when I'm logged into the system directly.  Xorg and dbus-daemon are
> always the top two processes in order or CPU usage.
> 
> I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this issue.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
Well, I stumbled across the solution.  Vino-Server.
Whenever it is running, my CPU usage jumps to 100%.
Turning it off results in a return to normal usage.

Keith