system monitor reports active programs as sleeping

Thanks for your report, may you take a screenshot of the issue?

sorry I do not know how to do a screenshot. It is an easy problem to duplicate though. Just start a few programs and then go to System Monitor and check status

Pedro Villavicencio <email address hidden> wrote: Thanks for your report, may you take a screenshot of the issue?

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Importance: Undecided => Low
Status: New => Incomplete

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system monitor reports active programs as sleeping
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i sended a screenshot and i hope you find it useful!!thank you in advance!!

as you can see all processes appear to be in "sleeping status" except system monitor itself!!this situation is constant and never changes even though some processes are running!!thank you in advance and sorry for my bad english!!

This is not a bug nor a problem. "Sleeping" is the state of a program when it is in memory but not actively using the processor, therefore it is Sleeping - i.e. waiting for user input or commands. Marking Invalid.

i didn't know this and thank you for letting me know, but the problem is that if a program is using the cpu like mencoder for ripping movies the status of mencoder is still "sleeping" even though the CPU is uses!!you can see it in my attached snapshot...i hope you take a look!!thank you in advance

Thank you for supplying the above info. Resetting to Incomplete.

I just noticed this problem recently too, when my system got considerably slower.

I tried all kernels from 2.6.27-7-generic to 2.6.27-10-generic and it's the same.

"ps aux" returns the same state, so it's not an gnome-system-monitor problem either.

Icebreaker, your screenshot does not show system monitor or any processes running (i.e load info, etc.)
Can you obtain a screengrab of this please?

I will compile the latest 'vanilla' kernel to see what happens.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Teej <email address hidden> wrote:

> Icebreaker, your screenshot does not show system monitor or any processes
> running (i.e load info, etc.)
> Can you obtain a screengrab of this please?
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> system monitor reports active programs as sleeping
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sorry about the last screenshot, lol it was my mistake.

here is the 'real' screenshot, now with a brand new kernel, and it's still the same thing.

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

it should be double checked if the mencoder is in sleeping state in the /proc directory too (to see if is not a bug in top or ps tools)

cat /proc/2534/stat
or else seems that kernel doesn't write the status of the process correctly in the /proc directory and must be debugged

also i would try an 2.7.28 kernel to see if is an 2.7.27.x series bug

http://mapopa.blogspot.com/2008/12/compiling-2.html

from what i understand this behavior apears after the kernel updates , could you tell from what version apears ?

Hello. Just found this bug report. And I do not have any solution for the problem. Please, is there any possibility to actually monitor the state of a program, tell me )) Whether the system monitor update or any alternative program. I am using biopython package with big databases, I really NEED to know whether my program is dead or still working in a state of "sleeping"...
Do programs go out of this state??
Thanks

Is this still an issue in Jaunty? Also in Jaunty can you run apport-collect 174164 and let it pull in all the info please. Thank you.

yes in jaunty there is the same problem....when I run the apport command above I am being forwarded to a launcpad page where it asks me the level of the access that the program should have on my behalf...What should I choose to help you??

Hi, the option you should choose is Full access, or all privileges, I forget which it is.
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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.26.0.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

Marking as Confirmed. This should be enough information now to help developers to work on this problem. Please give any ore info if requested, and thanks for reporting this bug. :)

Thanks for your report, that's something to send directly upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org by someone having the issue, for forwarding instructions please read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, Thanks in advance.

This bug report wasn't reported upstream, and Karmic has since been released, but I can confirm this issue still exists with active threads showing as "Sleeping". Will report this upstream. Also marking Triaged - there should be enough information here and with the upstream being tracked, is enough information for this to begin to be worked on. Thank you.

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
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Marking as Fix committed, as the fix has been pushed to the upstream source, and will be available with the next system monitor release in ubuntu.

Not sure why Launchpad didn't close this automatically.

gnome-system-monitor (3.7.90-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Robert Roth ]
  * New upstream release (LP: #1130956)
    - Fixed various memory leaks
    - Policykit support to kill/renice other users' processes (LP: #983127)
    - Do not report active programs as sleeping (LP: #174164)
    - Fixed crash in process properties caused by old workaround (LP: #958958)
    - Do not use deprecated API, use new color selection dialogs (LP: #972472)
  * debian/control.in, debian/control
    - bumped gtk-mm and gtk+ to meet the new requirements

 -- Robert Roth <email address hidden> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:03:41 +0100