Comment 102 for bug 93847

They should write a completely new and lightweight monitor, something like
windows 8 has done.
On 25 Aug 2014 16:26, "Kevin" <email address hidden> wrote:

> FWIW, on my (6-year-old) desktop under 14.04 LTS running on an "Intel®
> Core™2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz × 2" System Monitor still takes around
> 20-30% CPU time (I checked both g-s-m and top).
>
> I have two bits of useful debugging info:
>
> First, if I change the update interval to 3s CPU usage in g-s-m stays
> around 8%. At around 6s it falls to 1%.
>
> Leaving the update interval at its fastest (1s), if the Processes tab is
> selected but I remove all columns from view (no processes are actually
> shown), the cpu usage of 20-30% is still there. But if I move to the
> Resources tab CPU usage goes down significantly, to <5% consistently,
> yielding instead to 5-20% CPU utilization in Xorg depending on how big
> the window is. Since the only thing left showing the Processes tab is
> the average load for 1,5,15 min I'm wondering if it somehow has to do
> with that, or if g-s-m is doing extra work on this tab that it isn't
> doing on others.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93847
>
> Title:
> Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor
>
> Status in The GNOME System Monitor:
> Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Debian:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
>
> Gnome System monitor sometimes claims to be using all of the spare
> capacity of my CPU, I cannot pinpoint when it happens, but it does
> happen. I pressed the report bug button while it was using 86% of my
> CPU according to itself, but now a few minutes later, it has settled
> on 11%.
>
> System info:
> CPU: Intel Celeron 2.6 ghz
> RAM: 768 mb
> Distro: 7.04 (fully updated)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Mon Mar 19 21:40:54 2007
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
> Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.18.0-0ubuntu2
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcCmdline: gnome-system-monitor
> ProcCwd: /home/jonathan
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
> Uname: Linux jonathan-desktop 2.6.20-8-386 #2 Tue Feb 13 05:15:43 UTC
> 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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