ubuntu 10.10, apt-xapian-index 0.39ubuntu1

This happened to me this morning. 
i5 CPU, 4gig ram.    But my computer was under heavy load already.

Completely froze for a few minutes, hard disk light on constantly.
It's probably allocating too much memory somewhere cause "top" says I've used 
1.3gig of swap when it finished.  Usually, I have zero swap usage and 1gig of 
free ram.  This thing could do with a ulimit somewhere.

Unfortunately I couldn't duplicate it by running with the -f option,
it's maybe a random thing.  It usually eats up 300meg of virtual, 156meg
of resident ram,  probably not a good thing for <=512meg computers.  If
you have a small/slow computer remove this one and maybe mlocate too,
another indexer that runs overnight.

Note: This program is runned twice from cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index &
cron.daily/apt.  And it doesn't seem to complain when I run it twice at
the same time.  (but that wasn't my problem cause the weekly cron wasn't
running today)

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  update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system

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