Seems to me like a major bug: Has a severe impact on a small (?) portion of Ubuntu users. If developers don't consider this as major, I apologize, and you can set it back to normal.
** Changed in: gamin (Ubuntu) Severity: Normal => Major -- gam_server consumes lots of cpu time https://launchpad.net/bugs/36581 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs