I've experienced this with 0.3.9ubuntu5 on stable Edgy. I'm not sure if it uses overly much resources in total, it's just that it decides to pop in every few seconds to do something at full steam for a while that's causing problems for me. Since it isn't niced, it causes frame rates in games to drop significantly, and might actually make some high resolution videos stutter because decompressing them can take nearly all the CPU power my system can provide.
I haven't tried making it nice so I'm not sure if that'd help in this case. Possibly, but I guess that wouldn't eliminate issues regarding battery life on laptops anyway. -- apt-index-watcher uses way too much system ressources https://launchpad.net/bugs/64531 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
