This just hit me this morning. I use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse on my sony vaios s15 laptop. turrning them off did nothing to stop the cpu pegging.
$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty $ uname -a Linux stealth 3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:36:28 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ dpkg -l | grep hud ii hud 14.04+14.04.20140604-0ubuntu1 amd64 Backend for the Unity HUD ii libhud2:amd64 14.04+14.04.20140604-0ubuntu1 amd64 library for exporting items to the Unity HUD -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1300722 Title: hud-service is eating up 100% of one of my CPUs in a poll loop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hud/+bug/1300722/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs