Unreasonable CPU-usage in monitoring

[niplas]

Tried using Gnome system monitor 3.2.1 on various older systems.
Results as follows:
near zero utilization in 'system' and 'filesystem'
utilization as follows in 'processes' and 'resources', somewhat lower utilization for processes.

Dual Xeon HT (Quad virtual cores) netburst (2x2.4GHz@400MHz HT) = aprox 35%, 8-12% weighted over all 4 cores
AMD Athlon 64 3200 (1x2,0GHz@1000MT) = aprox 11-20%
Intel P4 2,53 (1x2,53GHz@533MHz) netburst = aprox 16-20%
Intel P4 (1x1,8GHz@400MHz) netburst = aprox 25-40%
Intel P3 (1x933MHz@133MHz) coppermine = 99,7 to 100%

It seems to me that fully saturating an old coppermine CPU for resource monitoring is a bit over the top,
and 35% on a Xeon-server?

Using my laptop with C2D T7250 (2x2,0GHz@800MHz) the weighted utilization is 6%(!)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-system-monitor 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 19 07:02:40 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
InstallationMedia: Edubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #93847, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.