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[JohnL <jwillar@xxxxxxxxx>]

My last entry (#79) I suggested fix turned out to be short lived.
Changing the frequency also gave false hope of a fix.  I spend 30 hours
since trying to better understand this issue.  I've installed Ubuntu
10.04 and Mint 9 on old then new HDs thinking it was drive related.  I
installed older and current versions of each OS all w/o real success.  I
use the Terminal command "ps ux" to watch the CPU% slowly climbed to
100% over a short period of time.  When I final discovered there is a
memory leak in glx (?) relating it back to the Nvidia drivers
(BUG/565981 Report);  Apparently the ATI driver has been fixed now and
hopefully the Nvidia soon.  Bottom line, I did one last fresh install of
Mint 9 and after learning that older Nvidia drivers were going to work
w/my Nvidia video card, I followed the guide to manually install
Nvidia's "nouveau" driver (per http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-install-
nvidia-drivers-manually-on-ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx.html); know it
removes all the Nvidia proprietary drives.  Once your installation is
complete, be sure and shut off your computer and let it sit for a while
before rebooting (rebooting directly will not work).  I still see the
CPU% creap up occurring but not nearly as bad as before.  At least I can
now stream radio and pay my bills at the same time.  I hope this helps
someone.

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Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor 
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