system monitor doesn't sort by %cpu

[Jonatan Schroeder]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

after installing ubuntu 8.04 beta, the system monitor is not sorting the processes properly, neither by %cpu, nor by memory (name seems to work, status usually works, sometimes doesn't). This happens in both ascending and descending orders. Besides that, every time a new process is added, the scrollbar gets crazy, and doesn't show the top processes any more.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 24 15:18:44 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.22.0-1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, can you tell us a few easy steps in order to reproduce that behavior? thanks.

[Jonatan Schroeder (jonatanschroeder)]

I just opened the System Monitor, enabled View Dependencies and
disabled again. The columns are sorted by cpu.

Jonatan

[LCID Fire (lcid-fire)]

Same here when trying to sort by memory.

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

simple way to reproduce:
* open system monitor
* click on "% CPU" to sort
* watch how it's not sorted -> see attached image

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you get the issue immediatly or after some delay? that looks similar to bug #217136

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

seems like it's happening after some changes occur. If the box is busy with lots of different processes, the order is almost immediately wrong, if the box is mostly idleing it takes a longer time to get the sorting wrong.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507108

[Jonatan Schroeder (jonatanschroeder)]

I haven't had problems with this on Ubuntu 8.10, I suppose it can be closed, unless somebody else still has the same problem...

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

Here it still happens, Ubuntu 8.10, all updates applied. See attached screenshot

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-system-monitor - 3.3.4-0ubuntu1

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gnome-system-monitor (3.3.4-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream unstable release.
    - New process properties dialog (LP: #249237)
    - Case insensitive quick search (LP: #915973)
    - Fixed cannot change priority dialogs for root processes (LP: #910845)
    - Sorting numeric columns fixed (LP: #206239)
    - Fixed crashes caused when application icon is not found (LP: #700900)
    - CPU chart colors saved for all CPUs (LP: #705505, LP: #874997)
  * debian/patches/02_lpi.patch: Refreshed.
  * debian/control.in: Require librsvg2-dev >= 2.35.0 to match configure.in.
 -- Robert Roth <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Jan 2012 19:10:15 +0200