console-kit-daemon

Periodically, I pop-open `htop` and see a slug of threads for `console-kit-daemon`. I've tried to find what the heck this thing does, and failing that I've tried removing the package... problem is, its required by everything I actually use. After reading an interesting bug report on console-kit, I've implemented a fix suggested there: created /usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon to contain simply:

#!/bin/sh
exit 0;

This has solved my console-kit-daemon glut, but has no appreciable impact otherwise. Oh well. I'm still trying to figure out why Ubuntu 9.10 is such a dog on this box -- UrT and a variety of other apps are just absurdly slow, for no apparent reason. :-(