I just saw this behaviour as well. Here's the output of top I managed to
capture with mem and cpu usage before it ground my system to a halt:

top - 12:03:51 up 14 days,  1:54,  4 users,  load average: 5.22, 5.50, 3.16
Tasks: 297 total,   4 running, 291 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
%Cpu(s):  2.9 us,  0.9 sy,  0.1 ni, 96.0 id,  0.1 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem:  16465108 total, 16297996 used,   167112 free,        0 buffers
KiB Swap: 11811176 total,   697772 used, 11113404 free,    70728 cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND           
                                                                                
             
17893 root      20   0 16.2g  11g  904 R  96.7 74.8   8:51.44 udisks-daemon     
                                                                                
             
17912 root      20   0 30060 1128  812 R  96.7  0.0   8:53.24 udisks-helper-m   
                                                                                
             
 1769 root      20   0  541m 302m  37m S  38.7  1.9 131:04.29 Xorg              
                                                                                
             
 3524 graeme    20   0 2084m 367m  33m S   6.4  2.3 130:14.14 compiz            
                                                                                
             
 5264 graeme    20   0 4107m 2.0g  13m S   6.4 12.7   1252:50 firefox           
                                                                                
             
    1 root      20   0 27624 2308  636 S   0.0  0.0   0:01.67 init              
                                                                                
             
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.12 kthreadd

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  usb-creator format disk causes udisks-daemon hogging mem and cpu

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