Just ran into this problem on a Ubuntu 16.04.2 server, the check-new-
release process occupied the whole disk, causing 99+% iowait in top and
100+MiB/s disk read in iotop (normal HDD, not SSD), which almost freeze
the server.
kernel 4.4.0-33-generic
11:48:21 up 209 days, 16:33, 2 users, load
The following changes in Trusty should improve the situation.
* Utilize new downloaded event from update-manager thereby speeding up usage
of MetaReleaseCore. Thanks to Anders Kaseorg for the patch.
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Importance: Undecided = Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1219786
Title:
Frantic disk activity by check-new-release makes
