that's probably because of bug 537241 and introduction of fsyncs in dpkg to prevent data corruption. Do you see this high cpu load rather with packages containing many small files or few large ones ?
-- Near 80% CPU consumption when doing install of downloaded packages. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568487 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
