No indication of any network related trouble in syslog, no driver crashes, seems the problem isn't in that department.
The only process using alot of cpu is 'beagle-build-index' which is part of the beagle package, a "desktop search util for indexing and searching user's data". According to the beagle project website, logs (if any) should be in ~/.beagle/Log. The indexer is run from a daily cron job in /etc/cron.daily/beagle-crawl-system; you could try running that manually to see if you can reproduce the symptoms that way ('sudo /etc/cron.daily/beagle-crawl-system' when the problem is not showing). Several other bugs exist that complain about high cpu usage in relation to various program of the beagle package, among others bug #89487, bug #59615, bug #104647, bug #64326 and bug #77106; please browse through them; some appear quite similar to your issue. -- Feisty cpu at 100 percent all the time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113074 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs