Same behaviour with: 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP i686 GNU/Linux Intel Core2Duo
top - 14:36:03 up 5:08, 4 users, load average: 0.90, 0.83, 0.74 Tasks: 151 total, 1 running, 150 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 5.4%us, 6.2%sy, 0.1%ni, 87.0%id, 0.6%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2075680k total, 1476728k used, 598952k free, 75632k buffers Swap: 1951856k total, 0k used, 1951856k free, 1044028k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 22 0.0 30:18.50 ksoftirqd/0 No Tv Card, but the machine has a Nvidia 7300, primary display. Second on board display is deactivated. I noticed this just happens with X on. Regards -- ksoftirqd/0 always using about 30% cpu time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153195 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