Comment 40 for bug 363695

running 9.10 on a 500mHz P3 notebook, this application pretty much shuts it down for a couple of hours on saturday morning. My experience is same as others I read here. I figured out what it was, killed it and saw the disk-banging stop and got my cpu back.

If all this does is give Synaptic Package Manager quick-search a current index - at least on saturday efternoon, it has to be the silliest resident ap I've ever seen.

I'm taking it out of cron.weekly, making it available to be run manually, while I'm on vacation and seeing if that lets it do whatever it seems to be doing.

If the wise folks who watch the gates on what can get into a Linux installation would keep an eye out for stuff like this, some of use with older machines would be better served.

To think that the Linux believers think that Windows is the only system with bloatware. This is a prime example.