Same kind of problem here with Jaunty. Fortunately in my case it only seems to show up when running Mathematica. After starting the program Mathematica, MathKernel and Java are using around 30-40% CPU despite being idle.
-- excessive CPU usage in 9.04- no apparent reason https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366292 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