The problem won't go away if you ionice it. It'll just run with ionice priority, but it'll still being doing an ostensibly completely redundant stat() of files on the filesystem, instead of just reading from `dpkg -l`.
So even if that could alleviate the case where it's racing other system processes for I/O, it won't solve the case of your disk being spun up for a long time (since it would otherwise be idle) due to popularity contest. Why does it need to stat files that packages install in the first place? Can't it just trust that dpkg(1) reports installed packages correctly? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493852 Title: popularity-contest will stat() every file installed file or ~80k files on my system which grinds things to a halt To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/popularity-contest/+bug/493852/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
