I can confirm this too. On my Laptop Apple Powerbook Pismo it runs every couple of seconds und the Laptop is very slow. When i kill apt-index- watcher performance is ok!
-- apt-index-watcher uses way too much system ressources https://launchpad.net/bugs/64531 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs