[ale] High load averages with U 8.04

[Jim Philips]

On Monday 28 April 2008 06:37:44 pm Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:30 -0400, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> > I installed Heron in a VM on saturday, after the install It was
> > running almost 100% continuously even if just sitting there at the
> > desktop. I figured something was wrong with the installation or
> > perhaps there was some kernel interaction with the VM host. But it
> > really did feel sluggish which is why I ran top.
>
> Well,  I'm cleaning up my INBOX in Evolution and really feel it.  I'm
> running the CPU load applet at the top of my screen.  As I delete each
> message in the INBOX I can see load peg to the top.  It is as if the
> movement to trash and the preview is what is causing horrific slowness.
> Too bad I can not roll back an install.  i may just back everything up
> to a 500 GB USB drive and re-install 7.10.

I can only report that I haven't seen anything like this jump in load since I 
upgraded Kubuntu to Hardy Heron. Yes, KDE4 uses a little more RAM and CPU, 
but KDE3 is the same as before.