What is nautilus-desktop - CPU hungry process [Ubuntu 18.04]

for a few days I was having overheating problems with my laptop and i realized that my CPU was constantly oscillating around 30%. When checking with top I noticed a process called nautilus-desktop was running and using a lot of CPU so I killed it and everything is now back to normal (I still need to check reboot though).

Does any one knows what nautilus-desktop is and what it is used for ?? thanks

Solution 1:

A subsidiary process of the Nautilus file manager, added in v. 3.2.2. Don't worry, every once in a while it happens to the best of packages. It's rare this happens, so you need not uninstall it, just kill it if it gets hungry again.