Just to confirm, this is unpleasant behaviour: on my Dell laptop, apt- index-watcher's CPU spiking causes the fan to start up, then stop, every ~5 seconds. Killing apt-index-watcher fixes the problem and the fan has remained off since then.
-- apt-index-watcher uses way too much system ressources https://launchpad.net/bugs/64531 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs