Comment 20 for bug 655831

The amount of memory it uses seems to depend on the number of packages installed?

On my Precise netbook with 1GB ram it uses at least 150MB memory, which pretty much always causes some swapping. Audio and video are completely unresponsive for 5 minutes at a random time almost every day.

Sucks if there's something like a Skype call going on. Would be highly embarrassing if I happened to be showing a presentation just then.

Maybe it should only run if no multimedia is on* and/or if there is a lot of free memory? But really, there has to be something wrong with the design, because apt/dpkg is much less intrusive when it's actually installing the stuff and spinning the disk.

* Can the hints apps give to inhibit suspend and screensaver be used?