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gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #346806
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 346806

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Andreas Moog (ampelbein) wrote : Re: gnome-system-monitor does not always show all processes

Still can't replicate, but can add some discovery:

If sudo has been used in the session before and a password is not needed, system-monitor correctly identifies updatedb as the process-name. If a password is needed, sudo is shown as the name. The PID displayed by top, ps and system-monitor are the same, so they still point to the same process, there is no hidden one. Also, the reported CPU-Usage is the same for the sudo process in system-monitor and updatedb in top.

Still, the name confusion issue should be reported upstream, can you file a report on bugzilla.gnome.org?