For what it's worth: The 3 USB disks reported turned out to be the 4 inputs of my USB card reader. All of them took a long time to find out to be empty, upping system load to 6. On the same USB bus, there is a hub with a WiFi network stick.
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 050d:945a Belkin Components Bus 002 Device 004: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Hi-Speed 21-in-1 Flash Card Reader/Writer (Internal/External) Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub I am using Lucid LTS: Linux 2.6.32-32-generic-pae #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 22:10:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux ** Also affects: hal Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/587044 Title: udisks-daemon constantly burning about 10% CPU -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs