Judging by the process' use of CPU time compared to the machine's uptime, it seems that this wasn't a result of the machine being idle, especially given that the process was frozen in gdb for some time before I ran 'uptime':
ch...@chris-laptop:~$ ps -ef | grep xfce4-v chris 2541 1 97 05:00 ? 07:12:56 /usr/bin/xfce4-volumed ch...@chris-laptop:~$ uptime 12:30:54 up 7:31, 5 users, load average: 0.10, 0.40, 0.84 -- xfce4-volumed takes 100% cpu when system is idle for some time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417778 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs -- universe-bugs mailing list universe-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs