Comment 26 for bug 1445239

I have a fully updated 15.04 machine and I'm still having issues with apt cache eating up my disk. I get into a situation where `http` is my most active process and my apt partial cache is growing quickly. See the logs below, which show the top processes, the large file sizes in the partial cache, and the file size growth in the partial cache. When the disk fills completely, the system is then no longer able to boot into unity and I am required to manually delete files with a command line login. ..

top:
 2581 root 20 0 40260 5012 4660 R 97.0 0.0 11:04.46 http
 2582 root 20 0 40260 4992 4636 R 97.0 0.0 10:40.69 http

:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ -lS|head -n 5
total 93832500
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49198669906 May 29 10:41 security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46855568434 May 29 10:41 us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7017495 Apr 24 14:45 us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid_universe_source_Sources.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6486447 Apr 24 14:40 us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid_universe_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ -lS|head -n 5
total 94526900
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49566396416 May 29 10:41 security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47198911538 May 29 10:41 us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7017495 Apr 24 14:45 us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid_universe_source_Sources.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6486447 Apr 24 14:40 us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_vivid_universe_binary-i386_Packages.bz2