Comment 10 for bug 276094

well, It just hit the repos as I wrote that message. I confirm that the patch works as intended. 177 second cpu burn is now a 10 second cpu burn. I also opened up the filebrowser pane, and it seemed to be working. I then went to /var/lib/dpkg/info, and the same 10 second burn took place, but it worked fine. I came the the same conclusion as Hew. I will also report upstream.

mac_v , the proposed solution only attempts to improve the situation (more aggressive solutions have been postponed till jaunty). For my computer, the situation is improved to the point that I don't care, but I also recognize that this still could be a problem for others with slower computers. You should still get a cpu bump, but it should be allot shorter in duration. Hopefully, you can provide more details as to how things got worse for you, because this looks working to me.