I've read that N900's idle CPU usage should vary between 1-4%. Mine is at least double that, usually around 8% or in the range of 7-10%. I guess 10% isn't too much but I'd really need the battery last longer on standy.

Top says that the two primary reasons for this are hildon-desktop (5-8%) and Xorg (2-4%).

I've got nothing on the desktop except wallpaper. No widgets, no shortcuts, nothing. No applications running except top in xterm. No wlan, no 3G.

I've removed all extra applications that run in the background with the exception of AutoDisconnect, but that shouldn't have any effect on hildon-desktop as it's a UI component?

Any help?