strange problem with LX

[Luke Shulenburger <sluke@bartender.mit.edu>]

hello,
I've got woody running on an LX and have been having a strange problem
lately.  The computer is being very sluggish so I've been checking the
system usage in top.  No particular process seems to be the culprit as far
as taking a huge percentage of CPU utilization, but whenever the system is
running slow (quite often) the system is taking 80-95% of the CPU.  I
don't even know where to begin diagnosing this problem.  Anybody have some
suggestions as to where I can start?

Luke Shulenburger
(sluke@mit.edu)