[Nook Touch General] aliastral:
From the task manager built into Relaunch (nookdevs . com/ReLaunch), a barebones file manager/launcher without animations nor wallpaper.

This is persistent over a week-long period of regular usage, as in, the resource consumption is constant regardless of what I am doing with the device (ie. fresh boot, web browser, reading).

I am unaware of the command to pull these statistics over ADB, though I suspect they will be similar.

Relaunch (nookdevs . com/ReLaunch)

Written for the Nook, spartan feature set includes only file manager, basic app selection, wifi and battery information.

UI is simplistic, about what you'd expect from a file manager.

No animations.

I have a listing of files in the current directory, beyond that nothing.

pastebin . com/j4EWAH0R

(Does not seem to have anything relevant, but the lagging problems only manifest themselves once a day or so.)

USER PID PPID VSIZE RSS WCHAN PC NAME
root 1 0 552 248 c00d4988 0000d6cc S /init
root 2 0 0 0 c0078ee4 00000000 S kthreadd
root 3 2 0 0 c006925c 00000000 S ksoftirqd/0
root 4 2 0 0 c0090d48 00000000 S watchdog/0
root 5 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S events/0
root 6 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S khelper
root 12 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S suspend
root 127 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S kblockd/0
root 133 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S cqueue
root 143 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S twl4030-irqchip
root 144 2 0 0 c01a4b54 00000000 S twl4030-irq
root 170 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S omap2_mcspi
root 177 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S ksuspend_usbd
root 182 2 0 0 c01df4e4 00000000 S khubd
root 187 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S kmmcd
root 218 2 0 0 c00a573c 00000000 S pdflush
root 219 2 0 0 c00a573c 00000000 S pdflush
root 220 2 0 0 c00aa36c 00000000 S kswapd0
root 222 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S aio/0
root 230 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S epd-su/0
root 231 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S epd-dspck/0
root 371 2 0 0 c01f7818 00000000 S usb_mass_storag
root 385 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S zforce_wq
root 404 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S kondemand/0
root 416 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S hid_compat
root 485 2 0 0 c0215cb8 00000000 S mmcqd
root 716 2 0 0 c0215cb8 00000000 S mmcqd
root 720 2 0 0 c012dcdc 00000000 S kjournald
root 724 2 0 0 c012dcdc 00000000 S kjournald
root 725 1 700 276 c017e784 afe0c74c S /system/bin/sh
root 728 1 836 360 c00d4988 afe0cb14 S /system/bin/OMXPolicyManager
root 729 1 1900 360 ffffffff afe0c7ec S /system/bin/OMXResourceManager
root 734 1 216 64 c007dd0c 0001413c S /system/bin/bridged
system 735 1 764 264 c022646c afe0c9ec S /system/bin/servicemanager
root 737 1 816 400 c00d4988 afe0cb14 S /system/bin/vold
root 738 1 628 244 c0248ce4 afe0d37c S /system/bin/debuggerd
root 740 1 171004 8552 c00d4988 afe0cb14 S zygote
media 741 1 28516 1820 ffffffff afe0c9ec S /system/bin/mediaserver
bluetooth 742 1 1068 348 c00d4988 bef345b4 S /system/bin/dbusdaemon
root 743 1 756 328 c02ab6e8 afe0c74c S /system/bin/installd
keystore 746 1 1600 272 c0248ce4 afe0d37c S /system/bin/keystore
root 754 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S pvr_timer/0
root 782 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S pvr_workqueue
root 790 1 16832 12172 c016e7e8 afe0c74c S /system/bin/omap-edpd.elf
system 810 740 353844 54808 ffffffff afe0c9ec S system_server
root 820 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S pvr_display_syn
system 1003 740 258112 16916 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.android.settings
root 1008 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S sdio_wq
root 1015 2 0 0 c0075624 00000000 S tiwlan_wq
wifi 1032 1 1988 668 c00d4988 afe0cb14 S /system/bin/wpa_supplicant
app_2 1043 740 245724 12396 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.android.inputmethod.latin
app_3 1108 740 249840 11984 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.bn.cloud.svc:svc
system 1134 740 252272 18352 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.bn.devicemanager
system 1181 740 261060 10192 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.bn.waveformdownloader.svc
app_22 1201 740 249236 11240 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.android.vending
app_23 1558 740 308052 62676 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.UCMobile
app_29 1742 740 253832 15392 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.eink.norefresh
app_29 1756 1742 636 344 c0227544 afe0c74c S /system/bin/logcat
app_34 3105 740 259656 21560 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.harasoft.relaunch
dhcp 3173 1 304 164 c00d4988 0000ee6c S /system/bin/dhcpcd
app_30 3247 740 250176 15752 ffffffff afe0d974 S siir.es.adbWireless
root 3289 1 3372 184 ffffffff 0000f444 S /sbin/adbd
root 3369 3289 700 328 c017e784 afe0c74c S /system/bin/sh
root 3370 3289 636 344 c0227544 afe0c74c S logcat
app_17 3395 740 251488 11776 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.google.process.gapps
app_20 3413 740 244860 10292 ffffffff afe0d974 S com.android.setupwizard
root 3442 3289 700 328 c0066b58 afe0d61c S /system/bin/sh
root 3446 3442 844 340 00000000 afe0c74c R ps

Thanks

Edit: The PID/UID of the problematic process is 810/1000, which corresponds to "system 810 740 353844 54808 ffffffff afe0c9ec S system_server" from the ps result. I'm searching for insight on system_server.