I've read the other threads on maemo-launcher but none seem to fit my problem.

What I am seeing is my CPU load meter applet oscillate between 50% (4 bars) and 100% (2 bars) load when I am doing absolutely nothing. I have turned off all my desktop applets and it is still doing this oscillation. When I log in via ssh and use top, a maemo-launcher process sits pretty steady at 20-25% CPU and 40% memory. I would assume that is because it is averaging the load its polling time.

I have noticed that my battery doesn't last as long as it used to in quiescent mode so that might be an effect of it.

I suppose I could forcably kill that particular maemo-launcher and see what else dies but before I do that, I was curious if anyone was seeing the same things and figured out what was spazzing out.

Addendum: Well ... I did kill -9 that process and the whole desktop died and automatically restarted and now the load is somewhere where I'd expect it to be. So I am not sure if some core process gets itself worked up into a tizzy over time or if something specifically triggers it. I will keep an eye out I guess.