80% cpu used apt-index-watch

[Kaltsi]

Binary package hint: apt-index-watcher

apt-index-watch uses the my cpu 70-80%.
The system uses the my cpu 10-20%.

top - 18:41:00 up 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.84, 0.76, 0.52
Tasks: 100 total, 3 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 87.7%us, 4.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 6.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 1.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 775584k total, 486032k used, 289552k free, 94880k buffers
Swap: 979956k total, 0k used, 979956k free, 222680k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 5098 root 25 0 24352 20m 2236 R 88.5 2.7 0:02.66 apt-index-watch
 4725 kaltsi 15 0 119m 37m 24m S 3.7 5.0 0:34.43 amarokapp
 4055 root 15 0 293m 15m 3836 S 0.3 2.1 0:27.91 Xorg
    1 root 16 0 1632 532 448 S 0.0 0.1 0:01.29 init
    2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
    3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.13 watchdog/0
    5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0
    6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khelper
    7 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
    9 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 kblockd/0
   10 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
   11 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
   91 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
  124 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
  125 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
  126 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0

[Lari Natri (larva)]

I have the same problem since around 2006-10-6. Apt-index-watch launches every 5 seconds or so.

[Jools Wills (jools)]

I have this same problem. Every few seconds apt-index-watch runs and uses a huge chunk of cpu. This causes problems like stuttering in movie playback etc. This was not happening last week, so it's a new problem. Hope a fix comes out before edgy release.

[Matthias Himber (nomar)]

Confirming.
This is particularly bad on laptops, as apt-index-watcher uses enough CPU time to cause the processor clock to be increased to maximum for a short time.

[Jared Biel (sylvester-0)]

I have the same problem. It causes a rather annoying spike every few seconds in my CPU usage graph (I use the ksysguard taskbar tool). It seems that one of the apt-index-watch processes runs normally and another one launches and dies every few seconds.

[Xarafaxz (xarafaxz)]

Confirming.

[Martin F. Hohenberg (martin-hohenberg)]

Confirmed. Especially a problem on systems of lesser calculation power - apt-index-cache effectively freezes my KDE. Is this save to apt-get uninstall?

["Kosmonaut" Bernd Müller (bernado-tornado)]

Confirming.

[Schnubbi (info-netzwerk24)]

The same here. Is there already a workaround ???

[Jools Wills (jools)]

Should be fixed now

See https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/libapt-front/+bug/64531

Certainly a new version is available on apt for edgy.

[Martin F. Hohenberg (martin-hohenberg)]

Negative, there was no "newer" version that solved the problem for me. uninstalling apt-index-watcher solved the problem for me, as I can do fairly well w/o adept. Laptop battery lifetime is more important to me than a userfriendly way to circumvent apt-get

["Kosmonaut" Bernd Müller (bernado-tornado)]

Apt-index watch still causes high CPU usage on my machine.
0.3.9ubuntu5 is installed.
 "8140 root 19 0 15140 6932 6116 R 81.7 1.3 0:00.23 apt-index-watch"
3 seconds later
"8247 root 19 0 15804 7604 6168 R 50.0 1.5 0:00.43 apt-index-watch"<-from top.
and so on and on...
A "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" solves this problem for 1 day. Then everythings start all over again

[thunderstorm (rainbow1612)]

I can confirm that problem, too. apt-index-watch use 35-50% CPU-Load on my Vaio-Laptop with 2,8 GHz, every 2-5 seconds.

[ATorre (aedelatorre)]

Remove apt-index-watcher from the boot process:

update-rc.d -f apt-index-watcher remove

I did it and all works fine.