100% CPU usage with plasma

Hi!
Since the last update to KDE 4.2.2 plasma causes all of the PCs that run with Archlinux and KDE to raise my CPU usage to 100%.
It's always caused by plasma and did not happen before with version 4.2.1
Does anyone have the same experience? How can I fix this?
It's very annoying especially on the Laptops and Netbooks I'm running with KDE....
Or should I file a bug report or am I the only one experiencing this?

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I have the same problem.
At first there was no problems. I had installed kdemod to test it after spending long time with fluxbox and gtk apps. At that time there were no problems. For whatever reason I decided to reinstall Arch and put only KDEmod on it.
Hellooo plasma hogging the cpu. I have no calendar plasmoid. I have no plasmoids on the desktop at all. There are couple of them on the taskbar:
kmenu (or whatever it is called), stasks, systray, pager, digital clock.
The digital clock has a calendar when I click it. Testing with no digital clock plasmoid right now.
A full clean reinstall of kde mod didn't help, either. Did anyone found the source of the hogging?

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