Fedora 14 under constant load

[John Poelstra]

Adam Williamson said the following on 10/14/2010 04:38 PM Pacific Time:
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:29 -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
>> Compared to Fedora 13 and Fedora 12, I'm noticing that on my Dell XPS
>> M1330 laptop, the system is under a load average of 1.0+ at all times...
>> even with no desktop applications open.
>>
>> Naturally this makes it run hotter and shortens the battery life.
>>
>> Are other people seeing this?
>
> Nope.
>
>>    How to diagnose further beyond 'top' or
>> system monitor?
>
> Check what process is using all the CPU time, and investigate that. I'm
> guessing it may be X?

That's what's so mysterious, very little CPU time or activity.

http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/paste-bin/f14-load.png

John