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Thursday, April 10 2008
In the whole time I’ve been a Gnome user, which would be several years now, I don’t think I’ve ever seen gnome-system-monitor use less then 5% CPU on average.
I have a honking fast box with lots of RAM here, and gnome-system-monitor still registers on its own display. Contrast this with the humble top, which rarely uses more than 1%.
It seems to me that when you actually want a system monitor is when your system is under heavy load. In which case the last thing I want to do is fire up a new app that materially adds to the problem.
Tags: linux ~ gnome ~ oddity
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