I can also confirm this (on intrepid):
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12785 root 20 0 5420 2064 1712 R 92.5 0.4 0:14.64 http
I also tried using trickle after starting trickled, which reduced the CPU usage of http, but this was then consumed by trickled:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 10460 david 20 0 2336 704 564 R 57.9 0.1 1:12.41 trickled 11869 root 20 0 5420 2076 1724 S 35.0 0.4 0:43.22 http
I can also confirm this (on intrepid):
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
12785 root 20 0 5420 2064 1712 R 92.5 0.4 0:14.64 http
I also tried using trickle after starting trickled, which reduced the CPU usage of http, but this was then consumed by trickled:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
10460 david 20 0 2336 704 564 R 57.9 0.1 1:12.41 trickled
11869 root 20 0 5420 2076 1724 S 35.0 0.4 0:43.22 http