There appears to be a dropped decimal place in the System Monitor application. By default it appears to update its Resources graphs 10 times/second (putting a significant load on my Atom desktop). System Monitor Preferences for Graphs lists an "Update interval in seconds", which has a default value of 1.0. However, this dialogue must be set at 10.00 in order for the graph updates to slow down to 1/sec.
OK, let's say I am silly. Could you please provide for me step by step description of what I need to do to reproduce your problem with normal names of the programs from the package xorg-x11-apps? Thank you.
Click on Applications/System Tools/System Monitor An application with title bar "System Monitor" comes up. Help/About for that application displays "System Monitor 2.24.1" View current processes and monitor system state ps -ef suggests that this application is called "gnome-system-monitor" I've verified that this problem exists in both 32-bit FC10 and 64-bit FC9.
Oh yes, that's what I thought -- then we are in the bad component. Reclassifying.
I might add: Due of this issue gnome-system-monitor wastes way too much resources even on moderately fast CPUs like my 1.80GHz Dothan Pentium-M (even though the Atom might be in a similar range). Setting the update interval to 10 seconds resulting in 1 update per second I suddenly reduce CPU usage from 20% to 2%. Please fix this.
top shows that gnome-system-monitor consumes 26% of my 1.6 GHz Atom Processor when run with the default "Update interval in seconds = 1.00" When this is set to "10.00" for an actual update every 1 second, gnome-system-monitor sucks only about 3% of my CPU.
Is anybody responsible for gnome-system-monitor? Is it a waste of my time to file bugs against Fedora? Really, I want to know.
We filed this bug in the upstream database (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571357) and believe that it is more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream. Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Thank you for the bug report.
thanks for taking action. I'll follow up in the gnome bug database.