CPU at 100% on Natty

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 09:10 +0000, Paul Kaplan 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.
> 
> 
> 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?

What does top show? I betcha there is some file/email/addressbook
indexer whacking away at your cpu, while upgrading some desktop search
database. Normal for first time startup if enabled. :) Ric


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