Comment 3 for bug 483719

I'll try to be more specific here.

This is reproducible, for me at least, although not reliably.

At some point while using my computer, I notice a slowdown, and discover that gnome-settings-daemon is eating CPU. Nothing in particular that I do seems to trigger it.

When this occurs, if I kill gnome-settings-daemon, and restart it in a terminal, it immediately jumps back to its previous high CPU usage. Logging out and logging in again restores it to normal.

As a triager myself, I realize that this probably isn't enough useful information to go on.

Next time this occurs, I will try to restart gnome-settings-daemon with strace and get some more solid data, if that would be useful.