Comment 47 for bug 295741

dbus-daemon appears to be the main cause of the unusable system performance I am experiencing on my Kubuntu Karmic setup:

bruce@Xenophon:~$ uname -a
Linux Xenophon 2.6.31-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 10 15:27:14 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
bruce@Xenophon:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
bruce@Xenophon:~$ ps aux | grep dbus-daemon
102 1029 0.0 0.0 24316 1424 ? Ss 01:02 1:09 dbus-daemon --system --fork
root 1755 0.0 0.0 23328 340 ? Ss 01:02 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
bruce 2492 6.8 65.1 5889876 2642604 ? Ss 01:02 91:58 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
bruce 23700 0.0 0.0 7340 884 pts/3 R+ 23:22 0:00 grep dbus-daemon
bruce@Xenophon:~$

I am not the prime target of a development release because I am not a developer and, above all, I do not "do code." On the other hand, I have been beating the .... out of alpha and beta software for almost 30 years and have learned a thing or two about the subject over the time, including to follow developers' instructions on tracking down problems.