This ended up being a result of a machine that was not restarted after the Java leap second bug that was triggered at the end of June. Using the 'date' hack mentioned in
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.cassandra.user/26694 fixed the issue. This issue can be closed. ** Changed in: pylucene (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1031975 Title: pegging CPU after VM initialization To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pylucene/+bug/1031975/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs