On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net>wrote:

>
> Something is eating my CPUs, but top and the GUI are lying to me. I
> need suggestions for other ways to find the culprit.
>

This might do the trick.
 http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

It could still be a problem with your video drivers. Video chips can heat up
things quite quickly and if you have it  running a laptop monitor and an
external monitor it will heat up even quicker. Does it still think you have
an external monitor for some reason?

Bill
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