kupdated sucks life out of system

[Richard Harke <rharke@earthlink.net>]

I first noticed this because my machine was dropping characters.
This was usually while typing a command shortly after another
command had completed. Sometimes it would be several seconds
before any keystroke was echoed and usually some would be missing.
I ran top and found that it sometimes would take up 99% of the CPU

I am currently running a build and and I see kupdated coming in a 
lot at anywhere from 15% to 70%

I didn't notice this when I was running 2.4.18 but now I have 2.4.25

Is this a known bug?

Richard Harke