I had the same problem. i had installed Intrepid after reformatting my / partition but still had /home left over from Fedora. I ended up with high CPU usage. I reformatted again to Hardy and the problem was gone. I've just followed the Upgrade process to go Intrepid and the problem has come back.
I tried removing compiz (as I never use it) and that did nothing, and spotted the entry above to remove
I had the same problem. i had installed Intrepid after reformatting my / partition but still had /home left over from Fedora. I ended up with high CPU usage. I reformatted again to Hardy and the problem was gone. I've just followed the Upgrade process to go Intrepid and the problem has come back.
I tried removing compiz (as I never use it) and that did nothing, and spotted the entry above to remove
~/.config/ autostart/ metacity. desktop
and this seems to have done the trick.