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gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #187383
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 187383

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kripken (kripkenstein) wrote :

I can also confirm this bug. 100% CPU usage on the 'Resources' tab.

I have a theory about it. It appears that the update interval is not obeyed correctly. When I have it set at 1, I get 100% CPU usage, and it is updating *much faster* than 1 time per second. When I set it to 3 I get 50% CPU usage and it updated about once per second. When set to 10, it updates around every 2 seconds at 25% CPU usage.

That is, it seems to try to update much faster than the user requests, which leads to extreme CPU usage.