Installd daemon taking a lot of CPU

I was away from my system for a while and when I returned it was very busy. Apart from Parallels and some other programs there was this installd process that showed up in Activity Monitor. Now, I did not install anything. I quit the running programs, then it was still around. A ps -laxww provided this for installd:
0 59528 1 0 33 0 2607456 111000 - Ss ?? 1:30.63 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/PackageKit.framework/Resources/installd
Why is that process taking cpu when I'm not installing anything?

Hmm nevermind. It was probably some weird bug. iChat is back to normal here, and also normal at the other end of the chat. It was probably some weirdness with iChat's network (quite common these days!).

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