Ah, after throwing out all the packacking/OS/gdb bits, it still runs two minutes for me when Firefox crashes. The reason is that it takes an awful long time to bzip2-compress the core dump.
** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 62542 Apport should not do its expensive bits without user confirmation ** Summary changed: - CPU usage still high! + Needs lots of CPU for writing the report ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Needs lots of CPU for writing the report https://launchpad.net/bugs/61538 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs