GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 653898
System Monitor uses too much system resources
Last modified: 2011-11-11 10:03:55 UTC
> Gnome System Monitor is a simple process viewer and system monitor for GNOME. It loads the CPU at 40% on an Intel Atom system and about 20% in an Athlon64 X2 system and creates too much load itself. A monitoring tool shouldn't have such a big impact on what's being monitored, it takes more CPU than the rest of the system. I have the Deluge daemon and its python frontend running with about 30 tasks, Banshee and Chrome and they take around 12%. For comparison, lxtask uses ~5% of CPU for monitoring the load, the running processes and the RAM consumption. Another thing is that upon exit the System Monitor kind of locks up for a second writing something very intensively to the hard drive.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. The exit issue is also a duplicate reported in Bug #649398. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 524830 ***