Weird Problem

[J]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:40, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 16 March 2010 12:53, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>        I ran top on my Lucid Alpha fully updated and to my surprise
>> it told me the CPU was maxed out at 98% used! So checked
>> around and could not find a problem. So rebooted to my 8.02
>> version which has all old stuff.
>>
>>        Here everything is working but top tells me the CPU is
>> running less than 10% almost all the time! This is what I
>> expect since the CPU is quite fast. Also this is a 32 bit
>> system and the Lucid is a 64 bit version.
>>
>>        Any ideas? I will keep testing and looking for the problem.
>
> The first suggestion is to look at what process is consuming the cpu.

Indeed.  Karl, do you realize that when you rebooted into 8.04, you
killed off whatever process was driving the CPU usage up?

My vote is Firefox... it usually does that to me, regardless of what
version of an OS I'm running, especially if there's a page with Java
apps on it.