Comment 48 for bug 1101666

I may be suffering from this. I'm on Ubuntu 12.04, uname says 3.2.0-36-generic-pae #57-Ubuntu,
# tail -f /var/log/syslog
complains
tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files
and (oddly) dbus-daemon is using 79% of CPU according to top, and 17% according to ps.
This is on a desktop with three users logged into it; my son complained of slowness during minecraft.
Don't know how repeatable it is yet.