ICloud Photos using considerable cpu

All of a sudden, around 2 weeks ago, my Macbook Pro 15" (late 2008 model) started to run really really slow.
After the usual shut down and restart it continued to run slowly so i dived into Activity Monitor and imeadiately found that the processes "iCloud Photos" and "icbaccountsd" were using the majority of avalilble cpu. Im talking 89-98%.
I went into system preferences and turned off Photos in iCloud and that has stopped the cpu consumption.
Any ideas of why this would happen and how i rectify it? I would like to turn iCloud Photos back on at some stage.
Im running 10.9.2 with 8GB of ram.
Cheers for your ears.

Why would this be causing problems now?
There may be one corrupted video or image file in your photo stream, that cannot be processed and  causing the photo stream agent trying over and over again to process the items.
You could try, if removing the contents of the Photo Stream  from your User library to a backup folder will help:  "My Photo Stream" is buffered in this folder in your User Library:
~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/
You user library may still be hidden, as is the default in Mavericks: To open your hidden user library:
Select the "Home" folder icon (the little house)  in the Finder's sidebar and press the key combination ⌘J to open the "view options".
Enable "Show Library Folder".
Then open the Home folder and open the Library folder inside and navigate to ~/Library/Preferences

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