I don't know what type of system you have mine isn't the fastest and yet when apport starts to do its thing it certainly does choke my system. I end up killing it instead of waiting for it to finish. Next time an application crashes use top and look at the cpu usage ;)
-- apport bug-buddy cpu usage ask first? https://launchpad.net/bugs/57757 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs