After some time, when gnome-panel starts working again, the system calls goes down a bit:
2601 gettimeofday's 0 time(NULL) 1494 read() 761 write() 1973 poll() 0 select() 36 stat64() Hope this statistics helps -- gnome-panel eats 50% cpu for half an hour and flickers https://launchpad.net/bugs/52405 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs