Just had another look into my notes. The problem appeared for me after upgrading from quantal to raring. I have also found bug 1152736 and bug 1185172 dealing with a potential kswapd regression in Kernel 3.8 and might be related.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of AC100 Team, which is subscribed to AC100_enablement. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655831 Title: update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system Status in Enablement project for the Toshiba AC100 NetBook: New Status in Apt Xapian Index: New Status in “apt-xapian-index” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index This is related to bug 363695 but is not a dupe - that has been "fixed". every time the update-apt-xapian-index occurs, the system crawls. Possibly related to the I/O responsiveness bug of bug 131094. The process is extremely intrusive, taking simple things such as flash video and throwing the performance down the toilet. While this apport bug was collected via a Lucid machine this also affects maverick. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: apt-xapian-index 0.25ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 6 12:32:35 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ac100/+bug/655831/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ac100 Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ac100 More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
