apt-check uses too much resources (starts too many processes)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-notifier
I have quite a few entries in my apt sources. The problem with that is that it seems like apt-check is triggered for every one of them, which is esp. an issue on slow systems as my EeePC where I end up with 22 apt-check processes, each one taking up to 50MB of memory, so every apt-get update run takes over 1GB RAM to complete. Can't apt-check run only once after apt-get update completes? Or at least run them sequentially, not in parallel?
ps auxw | grep apt-check: (after letting it run for a while)
yofel 11198 6.6 2.4 58068 50980 ? RN 16:55 0:26 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 11467 5.4 2.4 57888 50660 ? RN 16:55 0:21 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 11717 5.4 2.4 57888 50660 ? RN 16:55 0:20 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 11938 4.8 2.1 50808 43676 ? RN 16:55 0:18 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 12153 4.8 2.1 50808 43412 ? RN 16:55 0:17 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 12359 4.6 1.9 48760 41020 ? RN 16:55 0:16 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 12604 4.6 1.9 47736 40244 ? RN 16:56 0:16 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 12812 4.5 1.9 46712 39716 ? RN 16:56 0:15 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 13035 4.3 1.8 44664 37340 ? RN 16:56 0:14 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 13322 4.2 1.7 43640 36220 ? RN 16:56 0:13 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 13517 4.4 1.7 43640 36552 ? RN 16:56 0:14 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 13741 4.1 1.6 42616 34700 ? RN 16:56 0:12 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 13972 4.2 1.6 41592 34440 ? RN 16:56 0:12 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 14187 4.5 1.7 42616 35544 ? RN 16:56 0:13 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 14395 4.5 1.7 42616 34964 ? RN 16:57 0:13 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 14609 4.0 1.5 39544 31912 ? RN 16:57 0:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 14856 4.2 1.5 39544 32176 ? RN 16:57 0:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 15064 4.3 1.5 39544 32176 ? RN 16:57 0:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 15422 4.3 1.5 38520 31412 ? RN 16:57 0:10 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 15611 4.6 1.5 39544 32176 ? RN 16:57 0:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 15833 4.3 1.4 37496 30136 ? RN 16:57 0:10 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
yofel 16042 4.7 1.5 38520 31148 ? RN 16:58 0:10 /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 31 17:24:44 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.