Public bug reported: I was wondering why my system suddenly started to swap a lot shortly after resume from suspend and found that update-apt-xiapian-index was the culprit after force-oomkill-ing some things to get the system responsive again.
After watching it a bit, top showed this: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR SWAP S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20183 root 39 19 1500m 1.3g 3744 99m R 99.4 35.8 3:31.91 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index --quiet My sources.list is comparatively huge, but an automatically triggered background process shouldn't require almost 1.5G of memory (that's a lot on a system with 4G available) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: apt-xapian-index 0.45ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Feb 13 09:54:16 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-03-06 (343 days ago) ** Affects: apt-xapian-index (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug saucy ** Attachment added: "sources.list" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279701/+attachment/3979420/+files/sources.list -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279701 Title: update-apt-xiapian-index uses too much memory with a large amount of package sources To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-xapian-index/+bug/1279701/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs