I had this problem too, and I found that checking ~/.xsession-errors showed that vino-server was restarting very, very often. Killing it cut my wakeups from the load balancing tick dramatically. I read on the Ubuntu forums that someone had a similar situation with Metacity, so I would suggest checking that log.
-- Tens of wakes per second in "[kernel scheduler] Load balancing tick" on Core 2 Duo even with only 1 core enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524281 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
