Finder eating 50%+ CPU on Quad-Core MacBook Pro?!

Ever since I installed Lion on my new MacBook Pro, I've occasionally found Finder eating 50% or more of my CPU time in Activity Monitor,
When this happens Finder is usually in thumbnail view arranged by date modified or created.
Anyone know a fix for this?

I had it too, that AppleFileServer Process killed ths server with high CPU load!!
in my case was the problem in the SCSI chain ore the combination of ATTO UL5D PCIe SCSI + MacPro +RAID
the hardware it was involved:
MacPro 2 x 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon with 8GB RAM installed. all the Share are stored on a RAID Level 6 connected over an ATTO UL5D PCIe SCSI card.
since I'm build the shares on a internal 3TB striped volume, I haven't any crashes
in this forum :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1583563&tstart=0

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and they it comes the software... Adobe already told that CS4 version will not be 64 bits compatible nor quad core compliance. And there is no software that I can recall that was written to use 4 cores!
has to be the system to do such think, and that is not good, and you can see that a Quad Core cpu is not 4x better than a Single Core or 2x better than a Dual Core, that is the main reason, it is kinda having a 64bitx cpu and use 32bits software... What's the point ? unless you wanna for showing, like buing a jeep and only ride it on he city ...
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OK. Here's some test results. The most intense process I use on my Macs is using Handbrake to encode either DVDs or mkv files to mp4 files which generally pushes all cores to the max. I am using the latest 64bit version of Handbrake on both Macs.
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If you have minor software problems, you essentially will have to deal with them yourself. Examine these two comprehensive documents for possible problem definition and solutions. If you encounter problems that you are unable to cope with, start a new discussion and there will be persons willing to assist you in solving them.
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3353
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