Load Average unusually high since installing fonts

A few days ago I installed a lot of fonts (over 1k). I quickly realized this was a bad idea, and I've uninstalled them (or at least I think I have). However, the load average on my machine is consistently over 2.0, many times over 3.0.
To uninstall the fonts, I went into Font Book, selected all of the fonts, then chose Resolve Duplicates. Then I restarted the machine.
Any ideas how to reduce the load average?
Thanks!

nachof wrote:2.6.31-ARCH
You should probably upgrade to the newest kernel, xorg and the radeon driver. I'm sure a lot of bugs have been fixed since 2.6.31 (maybe this one).
Last edited by thestinger (2010-11-26 00:33:37)

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