> On Thursday 13 October 2011 12:39:50 Tiago Marques wrote:
>> I was interested in this problem. Regardless of whether it is a desktop
>> or
>> a laptop, mindless consumption of system resources is worth looking
>> into.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tiago
>>
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> I am still awaiting a result from  "Top" or "Htop". I actualy use "Top"
> because it's possible to space the "measures" of more than 10 seconds,
> which
> is not the case of "Htop". The tool should temporise, since the
> manipulation
> of windows eliminated the phenomenon. I will post when I have a result, if
> any.
>
> I wonder if some user has already observed this phenomenon....
>
> Good luck to everyone,
> Patrick

I suspect what you saw may have been a transient Xorg glitch.  If you can,
try to reproduce the problem on a machine with a different graphics card
(and therefore a different Xorg driver).

Tim