APT

  1. Bug #363695
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 363695

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JeffB (n35cwii9) wrote : Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

I have an old 866Mhz machine with 256MB RAM.
Top only shows this process consuming around 40% of the CPU.
However, this process brings my machine to its knees.
The mouse doesn't move well. Menus take forever to pop-up.
Programs won't close without the warning "Application is not responding".
I think perhaps I am out of RAM and thus thrashing the cache.

I don't know how the kernel handles a background task wanting all available memory, thus leaving none for the application in focus.

It takes around 10 to 20 minutes to complete running on my machine.

I am running Ubuntu 8.10