Dirty flashed 2.4 over 2.2 and noticed something like this too. Turns out that a cached process would be pegged at a high CPU usage, that process being associated with Settings. If you jump into settings, any settings menu, and then jump out . . then go into the recent apps screen and swipe the settings window away to kill it then the CPU settles down and the issue won't return until next reboot.
Thanks muzzy996, I'm going to grab a fresh tablet and see if I can reproduce the same issue.
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