Strange kupdated behaviour with XFS

[jmarant@xxxxxxx (Jérôme Marant)]

Hi,

  I'm running XFS on all my harddisc partitions and I am usually
  experiencing some strange kupdated behaviours.

  After unpacking any tarball (with tar xvfz, for example), or
  after Gnus for Emacs fetches my mail from disc, I happened that
  kupdated becomes mad for few seconds, taking almost all the CPU
  power so I can't do anything else that waiting for it to finish.

  I'm a bit surprised about it since my system is an Athlon 1,2GHz
  with 512 Megs of RAM, a IBM ATA 100 7200 RPM harddisc.
  I'm running a Debian system on it, with a 2.4.14 kernel (however,
  it behaved the same way with previous kernels). 

  Has anyone experienced the same problem ?

  Thanks in advance.

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