I'm seeing the same behaviour on a current jaunty system: In my case gconfd leads to idling at 100% and stopping it reduces activity to about 12%. Killing gconfd-2 does not help, it is respawned immediately.
According to iotop gconfd-2 is continuously writing to the disk with about 40kB/s, and the file ~/.gconfd/saved_state is growing until it's around 1.2MB and then starting again. ** Package changed: ubuntu => gconf2 (Ubuntu) -- Process gconfd-2 causes cpu overuse and overheat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
