I noticed this too. When I use top in a terminal, it shows top using minimal, and gnome-system-monitor avg of 35%. In one instance, ntop used 100% CPU. I issue a 'killall ntop' and then the high CPU usage dropped away, but can't say if this was related. Will do some more checks.
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