I think this is clearly a gnome-system-monitor problem: gnome-system- monitor shows short sleeps wrong, no matter whether it's playonlinux or something else that calls sleep. /bin/ps doesn't have this problem.
On both gnome-system-monitor 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 (Ubuntu 12.04) and gnome- system-monitor3.8.2.1-2ubuntu1 (Ubuntu 14.04), I can reproduce the problem like this: - Open gnome-system-monitor - Sort by ID (helps keep the no-name processes in a stable location in the list) - Run in a terminal: $ while true; do sleep 0.1; done - Look at gnome-system-monitor and click Refresh repeatedly Look for the root process with no name. Its pid should increase by 10 per second. If I increase the delay to 0.2, and repeatedly click Refresh, it will sometimes be the root no-name process and sometimes "sleep" owned by me. With delay 1 its name is always "sleep", but the owner is sometimes root and sometimes myself. Maybe some different values will trigger the effects for you. -- 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/606710 Title: Process with no name To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/606710/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
