Ubuntu
gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #426146
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 426146

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Casey J Peter (caseyjp1) wrote :

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?