Comment 14 for bug 505085

Having this issue as well on every reboot/start. Finally got tired of it, researched, and found this bug. I have to go into the office twice a week and it really just started doing this only a few weeks ago. Also, it only started doing it to me on Lucid. Unless it just took some time for this problem to appear? I think it would be safe to assume it affects everyone using Ubuntu+Gnome+Nautilus.

In my case, it took about 2-4 minutes on my laptop for this process to stop. Laptop HD is only 5400rpm with a 2.3ghz Core2duo. I was at 446mb and between 25-30k files in the directory. The IO prevents everything else on the machine requiring read/write from the disk from operating at an acceptable speed.