I don't know how freqently the thermometer display is being updated, but I bet that it is a lot faster than the once per second that would be reasonable.
It may not even be just the frequency that the thermometer display is being updated. I bet if you had a DRI-enabled graphics driver that the CPU utilization would drop down significantly. I don't know for sure if this is the case here, but it's not unusual for a "modern" Linux application to be developed and tested on fancier and faster graphics platforms, and without ever doing remote X, so nobody picks up on these kinds of problems. Heck, Java had this problem really badly until about JDK 1.4 and Sun should know better!
--Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
