Hello, I can confirm the same behavior on Dell Latitude d820. The Latitude d820 has Intel Core2 Duo CPU, so it is not an architecture related issue. I have seen this strange behavior for this laptop also in Fedora Core 9 and 10.
** Attachment added: "Screenshot-htop.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25952071/Screenshot-htop.png -- excessive CPU usage in 9.04- no apparent reason https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366292 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs