Comment # 8 on bug 1202796 from Jonathan Kang

(In reply to Michael Andres from comment #7)
> @Jonathan,
> in the pk_backend_zypp log we see PK almost constantly running a sequence
> 
> > [packagekit] ../backends/zypp/pk-backend-zypp.cpp(backend_find_packages_thread):3089 {T:140685635233344} 
> > [packagekit] ../backends/zypp/pk-backend-zypp.cpp(ZyppJob):565 {T:140685635233344} locking zypp
> > [packagekit] ../backends/zypp/pk-backend-zypp.cpp(zypp_refresh_cache):1661 {T:140685635233344} 0
> > [packagekit] ../backends/zypp/pk-backend-zypp.cpp(~ZyppJob):583 {T:140685635233344} unlocking zypp
> 
> Is there a way to figure out what is causing those requests?

This is called by GNOME Software, which tries to search some application
metadata files. Simply searching a file shouldn't take much time, but the
current implementation of this in PK's zypp backend calls refresh-cache. So
this might take some time to finish.

I'll prepare a patch for this.