[Bug 655831] Re: update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system

[Jonathan Marsden]

I think the simple workaround is to uninstall it if you don't need it:

  sudo apt-get purge apt-xapian-index

Getting it to play more nicely could be difficult; it already uses both
nice and ionice from what I can see.

A default install of Lubuntu 12.04 (as of the 2012-03-23 daily build)
does not install apt-xapian-index, so this issue should not happen in
Lubuntu 12.04, unless people explicitly *choose* to install that
package.

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Title:
  update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system

Status in Apt Xapian Index:
  New
Status in “apt-xapian-index” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

  This is related to bug 363695 but is not a dupe - that has been
  "fixed".

  every time the update-apt-xapian-index occurs, the system crawls.
  Possibly related to the I/O responsiveness bug of bug 131094.

  The process is extremely intrusive, taking simple things such as flash
  video and throwing the performance down the toilet.

  While this apport bug was collected via a Lucid machine this also
  affects maverick.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: apt-xapian-index 0.25ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct  6 12:32:35 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index

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