I confirm the issue. Like Steven Harper noted the problem appears when different graph rendering method is automatically chosen from system monitor if the window is bigger than 600px.
Hardware: Dell latitude D820 Nvidia Quadro 120M Without compiz enabled $ dpkg -l | grep gnome-system ii gnome-system-monitor 2.22.0-1ubuntu1 Process viewer and system resource monitor f ii gnome-system-tools 2.22.0-0ubuntu4 Cross-platform configuration utilities for G $ dpkg -l | grep xorg-core ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu5 Xorg X server - core server -- System monitor causes Xorg to consume 100% CPU https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187383 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs