I have had the same issue running on iBook G4 PPC, 1.33Ghz, 768MB RAM on Edgy. This was a fresh install on my iBook using the standard 6.10 PPC distro. My CPU get consumed all the time as soon as my machine boots up.
** Attachment added: "current-IndexHelper file" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5237459/current-IndexHelper -- beagled-helper and beagle run away with CPU and memory https://launchpad.net/bugs/69752 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs