[Bug 493852] Re: popularity-contest will stat() every file installed file or ~80k files on my system which grinds things to a halt

[Kived]

I've now opted out of popularity-contest. It's not worth it to me to
have my system grind to a halt every week, and I generally just get
pissed off and kill the process anyway. Microsoft collects application
usage information in Windows as well, and while the information isn't
always 100% accurate, Programs and Features loads in only a few seconds.
C'mon, Ubuntu... you're not allowed to lose to Windows! :P

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Title:
  popularity-contest will stat() every file installed file or ~80k files
  on my system which grinds things to a halt

Status in “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: popularity-contest

  I was trying to use my puny laptop when the popularity-contest cronjob
  started running and killed all I/O performance on my poor ~5000 rpm
  disk. When popularity-contest is run it'll stat() every file installed
  by a package on my system or around 81,000 files on my system which
  has 2252 packages installed.

  I'm willing to send statistics to Ubuntu but I'm not willing to have
  them grind my laptop to a halt. The Ubuntu installer should be more
  specific about what users are getting themselves into and provide the
  option of sending a lite statistics report equivalent to dpkg -l|grep
  ^ii

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  CheckboxSubmission: 0169f76fbe64c26c287457397cc58891
  CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
  Date: Tue Dec  8 00:56:20 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: popularity-contest 1.48ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
  SourcePackage: popularity-contest
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686

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