I can confirm this bug on my wheezy system. Each morning my apt-cacher-ng system starts some processing and CPU usage goes up to ~30%. The process lasts at least 2 days ( i killed it afterwards).
As the system is monitored, i can tell some things: There is no increase of Disk IO but the number open inodes goes up from 7k to 15k and the numberof threads goes up by ~70. Hope this might help? strace: [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] select(1, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 1}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] select(1, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 1}) = 0 (Timeout) [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] time(NULL) = 1368427918 [pid 2696] select(1, [], NULL, NULL, {0, 1}) = 0 (Timeout)