gnome-system-monitor causes X to use 100% CPU

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 00:06 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> $ rpm -qf $(which gnome-system-monitor)
> gnome-system-monitor-2.21.5-1.fc9.i386
> 
> I load it as applet in order to watch processor, network and disk
> usage.
> 
> When double-clicking it to open its window mode, the Xorg process
> uses the CPU at 100%, not only in the graph but also in "top".
> 
> Can anyone confirm?
> 

Yeah, I'm seeing this too. 
You are probably being hit by
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328101
In addition, the new graphs are not redrawing correctly for me...