On 5/11/07, mwales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I encountered an issue with gnome-system-monitor that caused the cpu > usage to goto 100%. > > I had a bad behaving task that created about 10,000 zombie tasks. If I > clicked on the system monitor applet, when it tried to launch gnome- > system-monitor I never saw the GUI and the CPU spiked to 100%. I killed > the process that created the zombies, and gnome-system-monitor started > behaving normally for me.
When the CPU is going crazy, that can happen. This bug is about the System Monitor reporting inaccurate CPU usage for itself in a normal scenario. -- Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93847 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs