beagled and beagled-helper - revving the cpu

[Rick Bilonick]

For the past 3 weeks my F8 (Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop) system has been
acting strangley. (It has all the latest updates.) The cpu will start
revving, jumping from 0 to 100% every few seconds, the mouse slows down,
typing stops, etc. The system becomes very difficult to use. (It stops
for a while and then starts acting up again.) When I use top, it seems
to show beagled-helper as the culprit. Killing beagled and
beagled-helper seems to have eliminated the problem (it's only been
about 15 minutes). Has anyone else experienced this? There must be a
better solution than just killing beagled and beagled-helper. (If you
don't kill both of them and only kill the helper, it always starts up
again.) Is this just a symptom of another problem?

Rick