Fedora 8: X/Nautilus eating CPU

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 02/12/2007, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> now that my Fedora 8 is fully set up, I notice periodical short
> hangs of the Desktop, making its use quite uncomfortable. `top` tells me
> that the X and Nautilus processes are eating up to 30% of CPU every
> 15-20sec approximately (I can hear some disk activity as well).
>
> Sensors applets are configured to poll on a longer period basis so it's
> probably not them. No cron activity has been set. Anyway, I was running
> the same applets with my Fedora Core 5 and GNOME and never encountered
> such behaviour before.
>
> For the record, nautilus-action is installed and there are few mounts
> (USB disks) visible onto the Desktop. I've tried closing all apps (but
> GNOME Desktop) and this still happens.
>
> Anybody has this too? Or any hint?

Which kernel is this? I am seeing something similar with the recent
2.6.23.8-63 kernel.