Some of the blame for this needs to be pointed at shoddy video drivers- While there must be an issue with gnome-system-monitor underlying things, many video drivers don't seem to be helping things. nv is a nasty culprit- Switching to vesa has reduced cpu from 100% maxed to 60% (Idle!) Specs fwiw- Athlon64 3000+ (S754) 756mb RAM
-- System monitor causes Xorg to consume 100% CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187383 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