On my 2,9Ghz dualcore this generally doesn't cause problems, however, I'm typing this message on a Pentium 3 laptop with lucid. 850Mhz, 384MB RAM minus some for integrated video, which also ruins RAM performance. You don't want update-apt-xapian-index on this machine.
Maybe it would be an idea to check the system before running. Anything that either has a high load, has a clockspeed under 1Ghz or is an Atom and anything <1GB RAM is probably better off without this process and that's fairly easy to detect, isn't it?
On my 2,9Ghz dualcore this generally doesn't cause problems, however, I'm typing this message on a Pentium 3 laptop with lucid. 850Mhz, 384MB RAM minus some for integrated video, which also ruins RAM performance. You don't want update- apt-xapian- index on this machine.
Maybe it would be an idea to check the system before running. Anything that either has a high load, has a clockspeed under 1Ghz or is an Atom and anything <1GB RAM is probably better off without this process and that's fairly easy to detect, isn't it?