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apt-xapian-index package

  1. Bug #363695
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 363695

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Pelládi Gábor (pelladigabor) wrote : Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

Just happened to me on an Asus EEE 901. I was copying large files from a pendrive, and after few minutes my desktop was almost frozen, unusable. The system responded for a mouse action in 30-60 seconds. The hard drive led (SSD in fact) was continuously on. I managed to switch to vt1 and log in (it took a minute), and ran top. It showed that update-apt-xapi was using 100% CPU. After about 8-10 minutes of struggling, the process finished it's mysterious work, and the system was back to normal again. But rendering the box unusable for minutes can be frustrating. At least can somebody tell me why we need this background process at all? Can I uninstall it, without breaking functionality?