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libapt-front package

  1. Bug #64531
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 64531

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Erik Meitner (e.meitner) wrote :

This just started for me today. I noticed that the fan on my laptop was running continuously. Watching a CPU graphed showed a spike every 4 seconds or so. Obviously, it is very bad for battery life on a laptop. I just noticed this today.

Currently using apt-index-watcher_0.3.9ubuntu4.

emeitner@cheren:~$ sudo time apt-index-watcher watch --syslog
Command terminated by signal 2
34.40user 1.26system 2:07.52elapsed 27%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+105823minor)pagefaults 0swaps

I downgraded to apt-index-watcher_0.3.9ubuntu3 and the CPU usage spikes ceaced to occur.

I wonder if the recent change has anything to do with it: " make sure apt-index-watcher uses a different mmapable() cache file so that it does not corrupt the main apt mmap cache (lp: #61708)"