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gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #93847
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 93847

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Andrew Conkling (andrewski) wrote : Re: [Bug 93847] Re: Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor

On 5/11/07, mwales <email address hidden> 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.