I can confirm this bug too. On my systems (a Pentium M 1.4 GHz and a Pentium M 745 1.80 GHz, RAM 512MiB) with a freshly installed Kubuntu Edgy Eft apt-index-watcher uses 100% cpu-load every 3-5 seconds. This bug seems to appear randoml. Killing apt-index-watcher fixes the problem (but it's not a solution).
-- 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
