Karl: Many desktop applications require dbus-daemon, and you will likely find that the desktop doesn't work at all if you disable it. I suspect if you restart the service, that it will return to normal CPU usage.
If it is consuming 100% of a CPU, then this is a bug. If you could provide a stack trace of the process via pstack, that would help to debug the problem. Brian > I'm running a 110 SUNRay session on it on a dual quad core 64GB box. Things > seem to be going ok. > > However I noticed that dbus-daemon seems to use using 1 CPU core at 100%. > > What happens if I disabled the dbus-daemon? Will the cups print dialog boxes > stop working?
