Maybe it does that because it detects your cpu is a 4 physical core cpu with 4 virtual cpu.
4 physical cpus + 4 virtual cpus = 8 cpus. But only 4 are real. Bye, KM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-monitor in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874997 Title: System Monitor does not remember CPU colour settings Status in The GNOME System Monitor: New Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I have a PC running an Intel Core i7 with Ubuntu 11.10. When I initially go into System Monitor, it will show 8 CPUs all with the same colour setting. I go to change the colour settings so each CPU has a different colour (so each CPU is easily identifiable in the graph) but whenever I exit the System Monitor and go back in, the colour settings for all 8 CPUs are not remembered, only for 4 of them (see screenshot). This problem does not exist in Ubuntu 11.04. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/874997/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp