Comment 21 for bug 284229

As for me it only concerns Ubuntu 8.10 Server, i386, on quad core Xeon,

right now, it results:
  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
30189 root 39 19 38672 22m 1624 R 100 2.3 9358:44 console-kit-dae
    7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 2 0.0 389:38.13 ksoftirqd/1
   13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 309:39.80 ksoftirqd/3
30144 root 30 10 13264 6748 2248 S 0 0.7 189:51.44 traf.py
    4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 30:17.34 ksoftirqd/0
   10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 30:17.23 ksoftirqd/2
 4369 postgres 20 0 42084 26m 25m S 0 2.6 15:30.96 postgres
 2351 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 12:16.94 kjournald
[...]

sorted by cpu time, I used renice 19 on console-kit-daemon.
at pstree console-kit-daemon results:

     ├─console-kit-dae───63*[{console-kit-dae}]

machine runs middle sized postgres db and shapes traffic for 100Mbit/s ethernet.
Console-kit altrough dominates at cpu load. Looking forward any, even temporary solution.
Is it safe to kill console-kit process? or at least - send HUP to process pid?