SL Runs really hot on MacBook Air

SL arrived in the post this morning, so backed up and installed. All went smoothly, BUT the temperature of my machine is now showing 20degs higher (72deg) than previously with no additional apps running. The fans are running constantly - this is going to really kill the battery life.
Anyone else seen this?

Take a look here, my investigations point to Spotlight being the culprit:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10074229#10074229
You need to run Activity Monitor, and make sure you choose to show "All Processes", not just "My Processes" - you will probably see "mds" and "java" hogging the CPU.

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