Chris, you are a magician! :)
That's it. There has indeed been a lot of activity with the session
monitor, which seems to be drive related - there has been an audio CD in
the drive.
When I removed the CD (and put it back in!), the issue went away. I
couldn't reproduce the bug again. The CD has
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
I'm unable the close the system monitor by clicking on the X or using
the menu. It uses one full core and never closes, just keeps running.
Unlike other bugs filed, this is persistent and 100% reproductible.
There is no related
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