In my Ubuntu 9.10 installation, I notice that the process gvfs-afc-volume-monitor causes my CPU core to go to 100% (that means for my dual-core machine to 50%).
Killing this process helps, but I see it repeating later on (not sure if this happens after restart/relogin or not).
What can I do to prevent this from happening?
It sounds like you are suffering from this bug or something similar
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor kills polar bears
Not sure about the title of the bug but the more your processor is being used the more electricity it needs etc....
I'm not sure whether you can remove the package but you might "limit" the process with cpulimit until the update of libusbmuxd comes out for 9.10 if it does!
