I encountered an issue with gnome-system-monitor that caused the cpu
usage to goto 100%.

I had a bad behaving task that created about 10,000 zombie tasks.  If I
clicked on the system monitor applet, when it tried to launch gnome-
system-monitor I never saw the GUI and the CPU spiked to 100%.  I killed
the process that created the zombies, and gnome-system-monitor started
behaving normally for me.

If it's of any interest, Firefox created the zombies.  I think an ill-
behaving extension was trying to update itself and created them.

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Excessive CPU usage by Gnome System Monitor 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93847
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