I have a Toshiba Satalite L40 as well. The specific model is L40-14N. acpid seems to be the curlpit. It also seems that repeted starting and stopping will stop the problem (until reboot) though this may be a coincidence.
Attached is a log of acpid running for 10 seconds with the -d switch on. it seems the acpid has a virtually unlimited number of hotkey events to process once it's on; matching the asus-wireless-on and asus-wireless-2 rules. These results are while running jaunty ** Attachment added: "acpid -d running for 10 seconds." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25821841/acpid-d -- ACPI daemon makes 100% CPU load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286604 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