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

[Gary Lasker]

I think, in terms of impact on usability, I would rate the performance
issues above as follows (from highest impact to lowest):

2. Startup speed.
1. Speed opening deb file
5. Slowness in browsing interface.
3. Interface unresponsive while installing

(there is no 4)  ;)

Of these, in my experience numbers 2 and 5 have been addressed quite
satisfactorily in Natty. Number 1 is targeted for fixing in Oneiric.
That leaves number 3, which for my case is only a problem when
installing many items at once. Nevertheless, it is certainly worth
considering for improvement as well.

If anyone has a different experience or disagrees with what I've found,
please report here.

Many thanks!

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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