I think there are two distinct bugs here. I also see the problem with CPU utilization when my X session goes idle. It seems that beagled is eating up too many cycles. I have not noticed any problems with beagle- helper though. Judging from other people's comments, it seems the X Idle problem is a distinct problem from the indexing problem.
I ran "beagled --fg" under strace. It seems that once the X session becomes idle, for some reason beagled decides to make a horrendous amount of gettimeofday system calls (once every ~35us -- ie. ~29000 system calls per second). This makes my laptop very hot. -- beagled-helper loads CPU https://launchpad.net/bugs/64326 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
