I noticed that mate-panel was using 100% and system journal was at 80%
so I journalctl -f and found that /run/user/1000/dconf/<username> was not able to create file being written to 30 times a second.
found that /run/user/1000/dconf/<username> was owned by root:root - chown to <username>:users and mate-panel and system journal both disappeared from htop.
be sure to submit your solution to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org,
your contribution will be evaluated, and either be implemented as-is or modified as necessary so future Users won’t have to deal with this.
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