Comment 1 for bug 260739

Thank you for your bug report. I have messed around with the synaptic on my i386 Dell Inspiron 6000 with 8.10 using the quick search. My CPU hasn't climbed above 2%. Thus I cannot confirm your issue. What will help the devs/triagers is more information on what you were doing as the problem happened (i.e were there any other program open..) as well as a few more system specs (amount of RAM, etc...). Make sure your Ubuntu is up-to-date as well.