This is still a problem in 16.04 LTS. This process uses 100% CPU for a long time and up to 500MB of RAM on my machine. That's completely unacceptable.
Maybe now when Ubuntu switched to GNOME Software is a good time to add the --update option to both cron.weekly and cron.daily. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363695 Title: update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU and memory To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/apt/+bug/363695/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs