System Monitor remains busy for 15 - 20 minutes after startup

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, February 18, 2010 01:47 PM, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
> Hello Friends,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 since last few months. After startup it keeps
> system monitor busy for about 15 - 20 minutes.
> Please refer the image:
> http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9476/systemmonitorbusyinproc.png
>
> How can I know which process is running in the background that is
> busying this system monitor? And permanent fix of this problem.
> This degrades the performance of my Laptop for initial 15- 20 minutes.
>

Run System Monitor and choose the Processes tab and then sort by cpu usage?