Cfprefsd writes to disk like crazy

hi all,
do you have this process, too? There is a process called cfprefsd that writes large amounts of data to hard disk, it writes 3.4GB to disk only 30 minutes after a reboot. It's a Yosemite freshly installed a few days ago.
Also weird is, the free space of disk keeps fluctuating up and down by a few hundred MBs, so the process does not write that much to disk as the activity monitor shows.
A search with Google says the process is a valid part of OS X, but I am still worried about being hacked or something...Could you verify if your machine also have this problem? Thank you!
best regards,
-Rick

my cfprefsd is crazy too.it writes 16.5G in two days
and after reboot,it writes about 1G/hour
my Yosemite is upgrade from 10.9.5
seems 10.9 didn't have this problem

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Geert-
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