I have a similar problem on my Dell Latitude D810. I'm using the ati driver.
The gnome system monitor always shows about 70% cpu usage.
However, and maybe the other reporters should check that as well, I get completely different values when I query the CPU load with top (60% idle), sar (95% idle) and vmstat (high fluctuations here).
I have a similar problem on my Dell Latitude D810. I'm using the ati driver.
The gnome system monitor always shows about 70% cpu usage.
However, and maybe the other reporters should check that as well, I get completely different values when I query the CPU load with top (60% idle), sar (95% idle) and vmstat (high fluctuations here).
Compare: https:/ /launchpad. net/distros/ ubuntu/ +ticket/ 961