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On 04/02/18 21:36, Simon Waters wrote: > Cleaning up vanilla Debian 9 desktop yesterday. Noticed PackageKit was repeatedly > downloading and verifying Debian release files, and messing with gpgv in the > background making performance choppy. > > This was happening quite frequently, maybe once a minute. > > I checked the obvious to me stuff but KDE was set to check for updates once a day. > All the packages were up to date. Does see why it would need to bother the mirrors > so frequently, I struggle to believe the files involved change that fast so maybe > a caching issue?! > > Is there some config setting or similar that does this? Do I really need > PackageKit? > > Itâs an old Debian 9 install but very lightly used and only used by me. I havenât > done much deep fiddling except poke X.org to work with headphones. So nothing Iâd > expect to upset PackageKitd. That's weird... PackageKit running rogue in the background and eating all your /var/cache is normally a RPM based distro problem: you see it on Fedora and RHEL/CentOS all the time for example. I've never come across it before on Debian (has it been pulled in as part of KDE's fancy one-click codec installer tools perhaps?) or Ubuntu. Either way, go ahead and purge packagekit. Double check /var/cache for a big left over folder just in case. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq