Hi, Important things first: I am not an expert and I am not a native speaker ;-)
But maybe I have hint about what could be going on here. A short story about my problems with gnome-system-monitor: I have used g-s-m on various machines and with diffrent Systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora). I never had the problem with too high cpu usage until I bought a ThinkPad Edge last summer. I had on this machine Debian and Fedora (13 and 14). Everything worked fine exept the problem with g-s-m which this Thread is about. So after 3 diffrent Systems I gave up and decided too use g-s-m no more. Instead of g-s-m I simply used top in the terminal. Of course I used top only if I needed it and then only for a short time. G-s-m was ALWAYS running (task bar) !!! After one week of happiness the following happened: I used top and it said 99,6% cpu usage for TOP! I didnt touch the system (exept of the screenshot) for a few minutes. After one minute the cpu van started. I waited over one hour -> no change in cpu usage, until I restarted the system . After restart top worked again without any problems. -> Screenshots The following things are important: -> top is a TERMINAL application so whatever causes the cpu usage has nothing to do with drawing lines in an X-Window app. I don't know if g-s-m is based or has something to do with top. -> If g-s-m has nothing to do with top this is NOT only a bug in g-s-m -> This could be a general problem with determining the cpu-usage under pretty rare circumstances (dosen't happen very often) ------> Kernel? I hope something of this makes sense, if somebody wants to know more about my system (processor, ...) just post here. Thanks for reading ** Attachment added: "g-s-m or top bug.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/93847/+attachment/1803545/+files/g-s-m%20or%20top%20bug.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93847 Title: Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
