> However, after about 10 > minutes the system load on one processor sharply increases to 100% when > performing a simple task such as clicking on a button in Firefox, launching > a new gnome-terminal window or clicking on the "Applications" menu at the > top of the screen.
I have not understood if the system load increases to 100% during the action of clicking and only during the action or if it goes up and remains stable. In the second case you should launch "top" from a shell and see what process chews up your processor. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list