All,
Testing the new soft-freeze packages has disclosed a horrible problem with tdepowersave taking nearly 100% of the CPU. My laptop was nearly on fire this morning:
[screenshot] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/tdeowersave-97percent.jpg
Earlier in development I saw tdepowesave in the 20-40% range, but never at near 100% of CPU. What to try?