Comment 6 for bug 365187

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 5166 jonaz 20 0 69396 21m 4956 S 8 0.6 349:02.65 indicator-apple

From top on my ubuntu 9.04

indicator-applet uses about 10-20% cpu all the time. Sometimes even more. It comes after a few days of uptime. current: up 7 days, 3:39

Please let me know if i can provide any more helpful information!