Here is a patch that changes the behaviour as described above. I've also sent the patch to the author (he didn't answer yet)
** Attachment added: "Make hardware-monitor ignore iowait times" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5860690/iowait.diff -- hardware-monitor cpu monitoring should not include iowait https://launchpad.net/bugs/81599 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
