Comment 64 for bug 93847

On my system (Ubuntu 9.10 upgraded from 9.04 clean install) with Intel C2D T5600 (1.83 GHz) I get CPU usage 6-8% for System Monitor alone when I just left it running. It is quite high, especially compared to Win as many people above mentioned (even higher than my Firefox full of addons with couple of tabs opened), but the real problem is when I switch to "Resources" card/tab (with those nice usage graphs:). Than the CPU usage goes to 100% for one core and I guess the only think which keeps my machine from freezing totally is that System Monitor is not able to use multicore CPUs so I can switch back to "Procesess" tab or close the System Monitor.

It is not so serious bug I agree, but it's not looking good especially with the new "Ubuntu is lightware" slogan. It is also quite annoying when you just want to check how many MB you downloaded/uploaded on "Resources" card/tab. I think the nice smooth graphs may be the cause, so it should be optimised or replaced by some less resource consuming graphs even if those would not look so nice (just my opinion).