Horrible load factor

[JD]

On 12/05/2012 05:28 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 01:59 PM, JD wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> on Ubuntu 12.10, I clicked on Ubuntu Software Center
>> in the apps menu bar on the left, and all of a sudden
>> I could get almost no response from the system.
>> I was finally able to run top in a terminal, and these
>> are the worst cpu hogging processes:
>>
>> top - 14:54:48 up  2:14,  3 users,  load average: 5.35, 3.17, 2.26
>> Tasks: 238 total,  10 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> %Cpu(s): 73.4 us, 26.6 sy,  0.0 ni,  0.0 id, 0.0 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.0 si,
>> 0.0 st
>> KiB Mem:   2065284 total,  1757384 used, 307900 free,    58944 buffers
>> KiB Swap: 12586916 total,     9172 used, 12577744 free,   413636 cached
>>
>>     PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>    1221 root      20   0 85684  35m 9244 R 39.4  1.8  21:25.33 Xorg
>>    7559 jd        20   0  531m 151m  36m R 13.5  7.5   4:37.02 thunderbird
>>    8805 jd        20   0 65084  37m  24m R 13.5  1.9   0:06.17
>> update-software
>>    3694 jd        20   0  688m 182m  34m R 13.1  9.1  22:17.12 firefox
>>    8725 jd        20   0  270m  84m  36m R 9.9  4.2   0:16.87
>> software-center
>>    2056 jd        20   0  232m  76m  31m R 4.9  3.8   4:51.45 compiz
>>
>>
>> This is very very bad for a unicore AMD64 3700+  cpu.
>>
>> Since I just installed 12.10, is this a clear sign of what to expect
>> using ubuntu?
> My guess is that you are experiencing this:
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/363695?comments=all>
> [update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU]
Very interesting.
This was reported way back in 2009!!!
And here we are in version 12.10 and it is still not fixed :(