A couple of weeks ago, my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200), which is my primary PC, started mis-behaving. It runs fine for ten to twenty minutes or maybe more then the CPU races to 100% utilization and the twin fans roars and the GUI becomes very sluggish. Trouble shooting the problem is frustrating. On occasion the laptop will run for several hours without any problem. I then feel like I got it fixed. Reboot and come back later and the problem is back. When the problem is occurring, if I reboot without powering off the laptop, the problem persists. I’ve tried many things to rectify this but I’m getting nowhere. I can’t even tell if this is a hardware or software problem. Because my /home is on a separate partition I was able to reinstall Ubuntu but even this did not help. I’ve rebuilt the kernel to be sure SMP was not enabled and to specify support for my Pentium M processor. There must be some desktop/user configuration that is the culprit. Wish me luck.
Hey, I don’t know if you’re still having trouble or not, but your problem sounds a lot like the trouble I was having with beagled. Something gets messed up with that on Edgy and it just devours the processor. I guess it’s a bad dog and you have to discipline it.
Again, if you are still having the problem, you might try this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288729 or see what our friends at Google can come up with. It’s been a while since I resolved my issue with it. I think I killed the beagled process and deleted ~/.beagled. If you’re not still having the problem, great!