Correction I didn't purge Synaptic and apt-xapian-index before. Now I did and the crashes stopped.
The update-apt-xapian-index process is still heavy on resources but it does work faster. It needs about one minute on my machine after refreshing sources in Synaptic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655831 Title: update-apt-xapian-index bogs down system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ac100/+bug/655831/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs