Yes, I agree. I often have to wait a long time for scrollkeeper to run. I read that scrollkeeper is unmaintained and there is a project to replace it named 'spoon'.
http://live.gnome.org/Yelp/Spoon -- multiple scrollkeeper-update makes apt upgrade very slow https://launchpad.net/bugs/44535 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs