heh, killing hildon-desktop via load-applet makes homecpuspeed pulse between 164 and 397, until right before it plans to turn the screen of automatically. then it settles at 164 for maybe 10 seconds and then the screen dims.

as for using a script to dump to a file, kinda out of my league

still, some of the home*-series applets seems to be able to send the cpu into a spin. seems mostly related to homewifi and hometemp (those are the ones that i have observed the patter with). this will persist even after i unload them.

only thing that really seems to help is killing hildon-desktop...