dbus-daemon

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Re the following output from 'top'. What exactly is dbus-daemon and why is
> it steadily using almost 50% of my cpu?

dbus-daemon  is  the  D-Bus  message  bus   daemon.   See   http://www.freedesk-
       top.org/software/dbus/  for  more  information  about  the big
picture. D-Bus is
       first a library that provides one-to-one communication between
any two  applica-
       tions;  dbus-daemon is an application that uses this library to
implement a mes-
       sage bus daemon. Multiple programs connect to the message  bus
daemon  and  can
       exchange messages with one another.

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

Yes, VirtualBox is doing something bad if its abusing dbus in that fashion.

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