apt-index-watcher's cpu usage is very annoying
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| libapt-front (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: apt-index-watcher
I've got a laptop that is perfectly quiet as long as cpu usage is reasonably low. When the cpu usage increases, the fan is turned on, which is, erm, louder.
Now beginning with Kubuntu edgy, apt-index-watch sits in the background and requires about 30% cpu usage every ten seconds or so, afterwards it returns to idling.
As you can imagine, the laptop's fan starts spinning every time that apt-index-watcher looks for index updates, and stops spinning after a second or two. This is, frankly, unbearable, and makes the "conservative" and "ondemand" cpu frequency policies completely unusable. For now, I have "downgraded" to the "powersave" policy, but this can't be the proper solution.
Something like this can't be activated by default. It seriously annoys a lot of laptop users (I guess I'm not the only one with such a hardware configuration?) for little gain. Please do something about this. If there's no easy way out, just disable apt-index-watcher on systems where you can detect a battery. It's not worth the annoyance.
| furlan (xtreme3xxx) wrote | #1 |
I've the same problem.
And if i disable apt-index-watch to run at start, the cpu usage return ok.