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sdennie

I believe there is a bug with the system monitor that causes it (the actual system monitor app) to use a large amount of CPU. A lighter weight method to check the CPU load would be to use either top or htop in a terminal.

April 28th, 2008	#2
sdennie Ubuntu Café con Leche Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Buenos Aires Beans: 3,564 Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron	Re: CPU in Hardy I believe there is a bug with the system monitor that causes it (the actual system monitor app) to use a large amount of CPU. A lighter weight method to check the CPU load would be to use either top or htop in a terminal.