‘update-apt-xapi’ eating lots of system resources on Kubuntu

[Appy BoY]

in today morning I noticed update-apt-xapi process which was making my system quite unstable. Does I need to use,

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge apt-xapian-index
sudo apt-get autoremove –purge

for your information I am having a high end computer so I don’t think so it is occurring because of low hardware configuration.

[Jezriah]

Well I think you should go to synaptic and find out the package and lock version which cannot be upgraded. Also you should execute below mentioned command as well.

sudo aptitude hold package_name

So try it and let me know whether it was useful.

[aSITA]

I was also suffering from the same problem. however I am having bit older computer. however I managed to resolve the issue by simply disabling,

sudo chmod 644 /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index

once I done the above mentioned was not remain executable at all.

[Evoldo]

if above mentioned solution does not work for you then I recommend below mentioned thing which you can give a try.
You should move to /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index directory.
Here you have to change

$CMD --quiet

To

nice -n20 $CMD --quiet

[Dayanidhi]

I researched a bit and got below mentioned solution. You have to open /etc/cron.weekly/apt-xapian-index file and simply edit file in following manner.

#!/bin/sh

CMD=/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
IONICE=/usr/bin/ionice

# Rebuild the index
if [ -x $CMD ]
then
	if [ -x $IONICE ]
	then
		nice -n 19 $IONICE -c 3 $CMD --update --quiet
	else
		nice -n 19 $CMD --update --quiet
	fi
fi

we know that update-apt-xapian-index help us to keep a track of index of the packages and it also help to searching of the packages into Synaptic. Also you can do the same with the other package managers available in the market.

[Clarice]

there should be call made to update-apt-xapian-index located into the /etc/cron.daily/apt.

if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index ]; then
            nice ionice -c3 update-apt-xapian-index -q
        fi

it will not have nice value and xapian index not having--update option. Rather than it should be as follow.

if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index ]; then
            nice -n 19 ionice -c3 update-apt-xapian-index --update -q
        fi