dbus using too much cpu.

[charles052]

Title pretty much says it all. My computer will run perfectly for 2 or 3 days then, without warning, one of the cpus will show full usage. The only thing I know to do is reboot. If anyone can show me how to get to the root of the problem I may have more info when it occurs again, which will be a couple more days.

I'm running Kubuntu 11.04

[james147]

dbus is a system for passing messages between applications. I find it highly unlikely that dbus is causing the issue itself but that another application is bugging out causing the problem to show in dbus. You could try closing all your applications one by one to see if closing any of them gets rid of the problem or look at the resource usage of the other applications (it might be miss behaving in other manners as well) though I am not entirely sure what else you can do.

Some general things you could try are to make sure your system is fully upto date and possibly try creating a new user to see if they suffer from the same problem (sometimes a bad config file can cause applications to do all sorts of weird things).