They should write a completely new and lightweight monitor, something like windows 8 has done. On 25 Aug 2014 16:26, "Kevin" <ke...@chowski.com> wrote:
> FWIW, on my (6-year-old) desktop under 14.04 LTS running on an "Intel® > Core™2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz × 2" System Monitor still takes around > 20-30% CPU time (I checked both g-s-m and top). > > I have two bits of useful debugging info: > > First, if I change the update interval to 3s CPU usage in g-s-m stays > around 8%. At around 6s it falls to 1%. > > Leaving the update interval at its fastest (1s), if the Processes tab is > selected but I remove all columns from view (no processes are actually > shown), the cpu usage of 20-30% is still there. But if I move to the > Resources tab CPU usage goes down significantly, to <5% consistently, > yielding instead to 5-20% CPU utilization in Xorg depending on how big > the window is. Since the only thing left showing the Processes tab is > the average load for 1,5,15 min I'm wondering if it somehow has to do > with that, or if g-s-m is doing extra work on this tab that it isn't > doing on others. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93847 > > Title: > Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor > > Status in The GNOME System Monitor: > Fix Released > Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Committed > Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Debian: > Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor > > Gnome System monitor sometimes claims to be using all of the spare > capacity of my CPU, I cannot pinpoint when it happens, but it does > happen. I pressed the report bug button while it was using 86% of my > CPU according to itself, but now a few minutes later, it has settled > on 11%. > > System info: > CPU: Intel Celeron 2.6 ghz > RAM: 768 mb > Distro: 7.04 (fully updated) > > ProblemType: Bug > Architecture: i386 > Date: Mon Mar 19 21:40:54 2007 > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 > ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor > Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.18.0-0ubuntu2 > PackageArchitecture: i386 > ProcCmdline: gnome-system-monitor > ProcCwd: /home/jonathan > ProcEnviron: > LANG=en_DK.UTF-8 > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor > Uname: Linux jonathan-desktop 2.6.20-8-386 #2 Tue Feb 13 05:15:43 UTC > 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/93847/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93847 Title: Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/93847/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
