I have recently hit this issue again. My system crawled to a halt and I thought for a moment that I was running Windows 10 and its Windows Update. 8-)
I have written a "conflicting" deb package for mlocate in order to prevent it from being automatically installed again because of some suggested or recommended dependency. You may find it useful. It is here: https://github.com/rdiez/Tools/tree/master/MlocateConflictingPackage -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1190696 Title: updatedb.mlocate uses 100% of the hdd IO. The OS is completely unusable. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mlocate/+bug/1190696/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
