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[Erik Wognsen <r4mses@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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

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