[Bug 542336] Re: software centre is memory hog and sometimes becomes unresponsive

[Gary Lasker]

@David, in reference to your comment #5 that is based on Software Center
in Maverick, I expect that at least some of these issues should now be
fixed in Natty. I'd like to try to identify those issues that remain and
prioritize them so that we can address as many as we can for Oneiric.

I think issue 2, referring to startup speed, should be much improved in
Natty over Maverick, as evidenced by the startup time measurement graph
that we used to track this over the Natty cycle:

  http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/software-center/mini10-startup
/startup-times.png

Issue 1, the speed when opening a .deb file is a remaining known issue
and we are targeting that in the Software Center UI Enhancements
blueprint for Oneiric.

I think browsing in general should also be improved (issue 5), please
let us know if that is not the case for you.

Finally, it would be helpful to know some details about the hardware you
are using so we can compare to our reference hardware (a Dell Mini 9
netbook).

Thank you very much for your help!

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Title:
  software centre is memory hog and sometimes becomes unresponsive

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  After opening software center I was installing gimp and gnome do from the featured applications, it was behaving too slow, and then the window got frozen, although when i opened the USC again, the selected programs were installed successfully.
  All after a fresh install of ubuntu lucid beta 1 and the only thing i tweaked was the gnome system monitor.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Mar 19 20:15:52 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: software-center 1.1.17
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=es_VE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64