I saw this question on an archive and as there was no solution I thought it best to share mine.
Although top does not report any process as eating the CPU, a program called gnome-system-monitor does :). If you are using kde and having high CPU usage problems, as some of the boxes I've installed, fire up gnome-system-monitor and kill the culprits with that! Hopefully this will help some people :). Luke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]