Monitoring disk usage by system monitor applet shares the same problem.
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System Monitor applet provides invalid information when moving a mouse pointer
to its charts on GNOME Panel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501188
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** Package changed: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) = gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
If it's been reported then I guess You should mark it as a duplicate
instead of making it invalid... How can I find the original report?
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System Monitor applet provides invalid information when moving a mouse pointer
to its charts on GNOME Panel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501188
You
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 102921 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102921
We don't always have the time available to search for the original
report when we see a bug that we know has already been reported. You're
more than welcome to search for the already existing report though
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 102921 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102921
Don't worry about it, I did it for you
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System Monitor applet provides invalid information when moving a mouse pointer
to its charts on GNOME Panel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501188
You received
I came to post the same bug. It seems that while producing the little
info bubble popup that displays the network speed, the applet is
incapable of also tracking the actual network traffic! I noticed it
first on an AMD64 system, but now I am using 32bit and the behavior is
the same.
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System
** Attachment added: Network information drastically decreases only because of
moving a mouse pointer
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37257826/system-monitor_network.png
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37257827/Dependencies.txt
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