[Popcon-developers] Popcon takes over my PC

[Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:19:31PM +0200, Charles Irons wrote:
> Hello Michael and Bill
> 
> I waited about 15 - 20  minutes this morning for popcon to finish.  My
> desktop processor is Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz with 938 Mb RAM
> That made me read your email again.
> That made me read nice vs ionice, again
> 
> > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483465
> 
> As a retired end user of Ubuntu 12.04 Linux I don't have the skills to apply
> patches to scripts even if I knew which one.

Then maybe you should ask Ubuntu developpers for help.

> Also the discussion in that posting made me wonder what is best.
> 
> So gentlemen, please tell me what consequences I would have if I uninstalled popcon?

In my opinion: none what so ever.

Cheers,
Bill.