The system monitor eats to many cpu cycles

[Sebastian Bugiu]

I don't think it's normal when I open the system monitor to have my cpu usage go up and the fans go to a higher speed. Most of the time the gnome-system-monitor is at the top of list when sorting after cpu usage. Is this by design? I don't get the same when using htop for example.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-system-monitor 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 22 00:24:48 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (130 days ago)

[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.
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