Tristan's steps to reproduce seem to work great for me. This bug report is about the highly active updatedb (I'm not sure the mystery process is always updatedb, it was just my example) process not being shown in System Monitor. You are right that it does show sudo, but sudo is not assigned a high CPU %. Having only sudo listed in System Monitor while updatedb is running is not helpful in determining what is using the processor.
Top correctly displays updatedb at the top of the list while it is running. I don't understand why you say Tristan's steps to reproduce don't work because the parent process of the active process is shown. Are you saying that System Monitor is not designed to display the child process in this instance? -- gnome-system-monitor does not always show all processes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346806 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
