CPU at 100% on Natty

[Alan Pope]

On 12 May 2011 10:10, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I did a clean install of Natty to a desktop machine that had been happily
> running Maverick.  Everything seems to work except that the spends most of
> it's time churning at 100% use and the system feels slow.

Run 'top' in a terminal and see what's eating CPU time?

> I suspect that this is related to the as yet unsolved regression in the
> 2.6.38 kernel.  How can I downgrade to earlier kernel versions to test this
> hypothesis?

I understood that regression was a degradation in the duration of
power when on battery, not a 'pegged CPU at 100%' issue.

Al.