System monitor take 80% of CPU when running

[Sergio Melas]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

When i open the System Monitor on the Processes tab its CPU usage remains around 80%-90% .
In Jaunty i didn't observed this behavior
Package version:
gnome-system-monitor:
  Installed: 2.27.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.27.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.27.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

My system is: Lenovo S10e
Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 8 10:05:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.27.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686

[LostOverThere (lostoverthere)]

How is this low importance? No really, I'm generally curious. This bug has been unfixed since 7.04, and I'd really like to help get it fixed.

Kind Regards.

[Casey J Peter (caseyjp1)]

aport information attached. The system monitor is supposed an informational TOOL to report OTHER processes last I checked. If its sucking the cpu down just by running, then its not a very good tool, now is it? I completely disagree with the importance level that has been set here. The average user doesn't know htop or top. THIS is the tool they will get to first.

On my system its between 35-85% cpu usage everytime it is invoked, fresh boot up or not.

As an example of efficiency, HTOP reports as using 1% to a maximum of 3% of the cpu, and normallzes at less than 1% of the cpu %. 75-90% cpu usage indicates something very wrong with this tool.

If this is upstream (as I suspect it might be due to the name of the tool), why didn't it get SENT upstream rather than set at a low importance level?

[molecule-eye (niburu1)]

I get gross usage as well. I'm seeing roughly 14-44% usage, with relatively long spikes into the 90s! This is on an Intel Core Solo CULV 1.06Ghz mobile, using Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic.