I have an old 866Mhz machine with 256MB RAM. Top only shows this process consuming around 40% of the CPU. However, this process brings my machine to its knees. The mouse doesn't move well. Menus take forever to pop-up. Programs won't close without the warning "Application is not responding". I think perhaps I am out of RAM and thus thrashing the cache.
I don't know how the kernel handles a background task wanting all available memory, thus leaving none for the application in focus. It takes around 10 to 20 minutes to complete running on my machine. I am running Ubuntu 8.10 -- update-apt-xapian-index uses too much CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363695 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
