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gnome-system-monitor package

Processes % CPU column is inaccurate (only ever an integer multiple of the number of CPUs)

Bug #1723370 reported by Daniel van Vugt on 2017-10-13

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Gnome System Monitor	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #788922
	gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Daniel van Vugt

Bug Description

Processes % CPU column is inaccurate (only ever an integer multiple of the number of CPUs).

So for example on my desktop with 8 CPU threads, the Processes tab only ever shows a process is using either 0%, 8%, 16%, 24%, 32%

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-system-monitor 3.26.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 13 17:18:24 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-03 (163 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170502)
SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2017-10-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (144.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1015 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2017-10-13

Changed in gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-10-13

Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2017-10-13

Changed in gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2017-10-27

Changed in gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
status:	Triaged → In Progress

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-10-31

Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-11-01

Changed in gnome-system-monitor:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2017-12-13:

gnome-system-monitor_3.26.0-1ubuntu1.debdiff Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain)

A fix for bionic.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2017-12-15:

Thanks Daniel, I renamed the patch to prefix it with git- since it has been commited upstream (it helps to know what's the status of the patch when doing the next update) and uploaded