11% is too high, too. I would've thought 2% idle is good ..... that's what my system under breezy is. As for how I found out .............. gkrellm (plus the machine was getting very hot) A few people had the problem, I could go through the archives and find them for you if youl ike. It affected the 686 I think, as opposed to the 386. . arndalebilo <arndalebilo@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:02:03 +0100, Anthony Gardner wrote: > when dapper first came out I upgraded but found that the CPU was running 100% when idle. > > had the pain of downgrading. > > does anyone know if this has been fixed? Never seen it happen. Mine is idling at about 11% according to Gnome system monitor. How did you get the figure %100? -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </blockquote> <hr size=1> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/nowyoucan/spamguard/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=40565/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html">All New Yahoo! Mail</a> – Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you.