High cpu usage when navigating through the Software Center

[Tor Klingberg]

Binary package hint: software-center

Scrolling down a list of software in the Software Center is slow and loads the CPU heavily. I have a rather slow Intel Atom CPU, but scrolling shouldn't require this much.

Using 9.10 Karmic and Ubuntu Software Center 1.0.1.

[Michal Charvát (dog.big)]

Confirmed on Celeron 1,7Ghz and Intel IGP gma965.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

this bug also exists in software center 1.1.4. on my acer aspire one using lucid cpu usage rises to 100% when scrolling in software center

[Dooitze de Jong (dooitze)]

On my systen I have the same problem.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.40 GHz
3 GB memory
320 GB HDD

[Rui Moreira (rui-f-moreira)]

I'm seeing this in a fresh install of Lucid Beta2. Not an upgrade.
cpu goes up the roof in Firefox, on sites using adobe flashplayer plugin (i.e. Farmville) becoming extremely slow.
Scrolling problem also applies.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Rui: This bug addresses the Software Center. Please report another bug on Firefox for your problem to be addressed.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

Lucid shows much heavier navigating than in Karmic (possibly because of all the added navigation features/animations). I'm on a moderately powerful machine yet it still is a little painful sometimes.

[lucretius (john-binns-gmail)]

makes software-center on low resource systems like netbooks painfully slow

[Dooitze de Jong (dooitze)]

On my pc too,

Athlon 64 X2 2.40 GHz per CPU

2010/4/18 lucretius <email address hidden>

> makes software-center on low resource systems like netbooks painfully
> slow
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> High cpu usage when navigating through the Software Center
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/460366
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> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: software-center
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> Scrolling down a list of software in the Software Center is slow and loads
> the CPU heavily. I have a rather slow Intel Atom CPU, but scrolling
> shouldn't require this much.
>
> Using 9.10 Karmic and Ubuntu Software Center 1.0.1.
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[Lollerke (pumba88)]

Software Center 2.0.2 solves this problem.

[jhfhlkjlj (fdsuufijjejejejej-deactivatedaccount)]

It does seem quite a bit faster. I'm on a virtual machine, and general usability is slow anyways, so I will not mark as fixed yet. Can someone else confirm?

[MillenniumBug (millenniumbug)]

I confirm that the scrolling is fast now, also on old hardware. There are other performance problems in software centre, but the scrolling problem is solved.

[WolverinePL (podusowski)]

This one is NOT fixed, software-center in 10.10 performance makes it unusable in fairly modern hardware.