I think this is clearly a gnome-system-monitor problem: gnome-system- monitor shows short sleeps wrong, no matter whether it's playonlinux or something else that calls sleep. /bin/ps doesn't have this problem.
On both gnome-system-monitor 3.4.1-0ubuntu1 (Ubuntu 12.04) and gnome- system-monitor3.8.2.1-2ubuntu1 (Ubuntu 14.04), I can reproduce the problem like this: - Open gnome-system-monitor - Sort by ID (helps keep the no-name processes in a stable location in the list) - Run in a terminal: $ while true; do sleep 0.1; done - Look at gnome-system-monitor and click Refresh repeatedly Look for the root process with no name. Its pid should increase by 10 per second. If I increase the delay to 0.2, and repeatedly click Refresh, it will sometimes be the root no-name process and sometimes "sleep" owned by me. With delay 1 its name is always "sleep", but the owner is sometimes root and sometimes myself. Maybe some different values will trigger the effects for you. -- 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/606710 Title: Process with no name Status in gnome-system-monitor package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor This probably has nothing to do with system monitor, but that is where I see the problem. I have one process that has no name, its process ID keeps incrementing (about 100/second) hovering over the process name gives a tiny yellow box with no text in it. I can't kill it because its process ID changes too fast. I'm going to reboot my computer now and hope it goes away. This behaves as if it is trying to hide, so I'm going to flag this as a security vulnerability. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.28.0-1ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 CheckboxSubmission: 4f08ac62e89ad166a1e0b05f95495253 CheckboxSystem: fd6c484c0b5d20a2f1cd036ef0f63975 Date: Sat Jul 17 10:47:58 2010 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/606710/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
