Public bug reported: I have the indicator with the CPU monitoring enabled and noticed that whenever I unplug my laptop (T420s) from AC, the CPU usage increases. After watching top while I unplugged, I noticed the inidicator-multiload process was partly to blame (compiz was also using more CPU after I unplugged) for that, but once I closed the indicator I noticed that the CPU usage would stay pretty much constant after unplugging, so I'm led to believe the extra CPU usage from compiz was driven by the indicator.
FWIW, gnome-system-monitor has the same behaviour -- as soon as I unplug, I see a spike in overall CPU usage and then it stabilizes at about 10% more than the overall usage before unplugging. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: indicator-multiload 0.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Nov 2 09:27:17 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) SourcePackage: indicator-multiload UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (19 days ago) ** Affects: indicator-multiload (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/885225 Title: The indicator uses a lot more CPU as soon as I unplug my laptop from AC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-multiload/+bug/885225/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs