I have the same problem on my 800 Duron since the new fancy cairo interface for the gnome-system-monitor is used.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) System is 8.04 RC with Updates. ** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13580556/Bildschirmfoto.png -- 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