[Bug 1190696] Re: updatedb.mlocate uses 100% of the hdd IO. The OS is completely unusable.

[Jason Grammenos]

I have this issue on 16.04 (recently in place upgraded from 14.04), it
makes the physical machine basically useless. And this issue persists
for hours. Today is the second time it has happened on the same machine.
last time I kill the process after some number of hours of waiting.

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Title:
  updatedb.mlocate uses 100% of the hdd IO.  The OS is completely
  unusable.

Status in mlocate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  updatedb.mlocate uses 100% of the hdd IO.  The OS is completely
  unusable.  This can go on for an hour.  I have been fighting with this
  on 3 separate computers for at least a month.

  A very old related bug:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/findutils/+bug/332790
  That bug was marked as fix released for Hardy.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: mlocate 0.25-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jun 13 08:11:38 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-09 (34 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: mlocate
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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