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Bug#685756: apt-xapian-index makes 256 MB RAM laptop very unresponsive



Bertil wrote:
> (i) Debian installer:
> In the installer task (Debian Desktop), one can consider to exclude the
> package as default.

This is difficult to do while aptitude Recommends it. Although the
installer has stopped using aptitude in some places, it seems likely to
remain installed by default.

> (ii) apt-xapian-index install: In the 'Setting up apt-xapian-index', do not
> automatically start the background task ..rebuilding index..
> since the processor will shuffling data between physical memory and swap and
> not finish the task.
> (iii) apt-xapian-index: The program could check for sufficient memory and not
> start the rebuild task if memory low or should not run at all.

I guess I'll reassign to apt-xapian-index.

-- 
see shy jo

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