Comment 5 for bug 675577

I'm particularly interested in why the package reporter is showing the download of package information in batches of 500. That should only happen if you are running a distro that is not released yet, like natty perhaps. Is that the case?

Anyway, that's the reason it is running frequently, it's because it has to report all the packages to the server, in these batches. That can take some time, but eventually ends. We do have a cache file in place on the server to reduce this initial upload time by several orders of magnitude, but not for all distributions (natty isn't included yet, for example).