dbus-daemon

[Michael Hipp]

Re the following output from 'top'. What exactly is dbus-daemon and why is it 
steadily using almost 50% of my cpu?

The VirtualBox instance is running a copy of Winders so it's no surprise that 
it never sits still.

Any insight?

Michael

top - 19:41:40 up 49 days, 22:09,  1 user,  load average: 2.21, 2.10, 1.94
Tasks: 126 total,   2 running, 124 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 79.7%us, 20.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3111912k total,  3007720k used,   104192k free,   326148k buffers
Swap:  1967864k total,     6140k used,  1961724k free,  1126000k cached

   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  4905 messageb  20   0  2772 1180  860 R 47.8  0.0  33752:16 dbus-daemon
10248 michael   20   0 13292 5604 3776 S 37.9  0.2  27367:45 VBoxSVC
10227 michael   20   0 1092m 1.0g 4448 S 13.6 34.6   9786:56 VBoxHeadless
  2079 michael   20   0  2416 1160  876 R  0.3  0.0   0:01.77 top
     1 root      20   0  1740  596  516 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.81 init