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gnome-system-monitor package

  1. Bug #93847
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 93847

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Andrew Conkling (andrewski) wrote : Re: [Bug 93847] Re: Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor

On 5/18/07, elias <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> No even though g-s-m does not seem to show exactly the same CPU usage
> for itself as top is showing, g-s-m seems to have a resource problem
> after all. It just uses too much CPU for the little task it has to do!
>
> Yes, I agree this should be reported upstream! It is embarrassing if the
> CPU monitor uses most of the CPU for itself!

I'm not sure it is using that much. top is generally pretty accurate, and
I'm convinced that g-s-m is just displaying the wrong information for
itself. Especially since the CPU panel applet doesn't reflect this usage
either.