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apt-xapian-index package

  1. Bug #363695
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 363695

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Tanker Bob (tankerbob) wrote : Re: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU

Confirmed problem on Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64 Jaunty. I am running in Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 CPU, and the update-apt-xapian process takes 100% of one core. As of this writing, it has run for 468:50:30 according to top with no end in sight. This is absurd.

I tried purging the package and killing the process, but then the Quick Search window in Synaptic no longer works. I tried making the /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index script non-executable, but it runs anyway.

Other than the Quick Search in Synaptic, I see no use for this process or its huge database. It either need to be fixed so that it doesn't eat 100% of a CPU core, or eliminated as a requirement for Synaptic's Quick Search so that it can be removed from the distribution.