High cpu hogging by udevd in kernel-2.6.34 from git8 to git-13

I noticed that since git8, udevd consumes from 50 to 80 percent of cpu. The main udevd thread is niced to -4, and 6 or more child threads are niced -2.

So, I backpedaled to git7, which does not have this "feature" :)

Cheers,

JD