Comment 25 for bug 64326

I have a similar situation to Eythian(above at 2006-10-28 22:32:25 UTC). It happens always after a few minutes of ide time. Stops upon user imput on keyboard or mouse.

Note CPU ussage increase is NOT accompanied by an increase in block device IO that indexing or database optimization,etc would cause. vmstat output during the transition:
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu----
 r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
 0 0 82636 52508 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 334 960 4 2 94 0
 0 0 82636 52508 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 436 1041 4 3 93 0
 0 0 82636 52508 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 334 820 4 1 95 0
 0 0 82636 52508 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 455 1101 4 2 94 0
 0 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 335 844 4 1 95 0
 0 0 82636 52508 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 437 1145 6 2 92 0
 0 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 333 808 4 0 96 0
 1 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 435 1028 38 8 54 0
 1 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 4 0 353 719 66 12 22 0
 0 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 439 1014 39 10 51 0
 1 0 82636 52508 163252 440940 0 0 0 8 340 820 45 14 42 0
 1 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 461 1049 34 8 58 0
 2 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 335 775 63 16 21 0
 3 0 82636 52384 163252 440940 0 0 0 0 435 951 62 9 29 0

No lines were appended to these logs during this period :
~/.beagle/Log/current-Beagle
~/.beagle/Log/current-BeagleExceptions
~/.beagle/Log/current-IndexHelper

Following some tips I found by googling I temporarily enabled extended attributes on the partition that gets indexed:
sudo mount /dev/hda2 -oremount,user_xattr
This seems to have stopped the unusual resource consumption by beagled-helper. See:
http://beagle-project.org/Enabling_Extended_Attributes

More correctly, it seems that beagled-helper is no longer run.