what i found myself doing after reading this thread was to shut down all of my desktop applets, except homecpuspeed. then i observe.

its will drop to about 164 mips. then rise again to 397 mips. then it may drop again to 164, and rise again. but sometimes it will basically lock at 397.

at the same time i have load-applet in the statusbar. when homecpuspeed locks at 397, i will see a load-applet pulse between 1 and 2 blocks. and this is just me sitting there looking at the desktop.

now, if i run something like say notes, load-applet will show a steady low cpu while notes is just sitting there doing nothing.

if i then close down notes, homecpuspeed will show 397 for a while, then 164, and then go back up to 397 and sit there, or pulse between 397 and 164. most likely it will just go to 397 and sit there...

something is eating away in there, but all i can find that is doing something is hildon-desktop...