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[Dmitri Bachtin <109356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The time axis is present in the current builds of g-s-m.

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Title:
  the "CPU History" graph info is unclear

Status in The GNOME System Monitor:
  New
Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

  Hi! This report is about System Monitor 2.18.1.1, running on Ubuntu
  Feisty. It would be a nice fix for Gutsy.

  Currently the CPU History graph in the System Monitor is a nice tool
  for a quick estimate of the current CPU usage, but only for a very
  rough estimate. The main problem is that the units are not very clear:
  the time axis is not marked at all, so I can at most estimate how long
  a spike took; the height is marked in percent -- but doesn't mention
  exactly of what.

  I'm using Ubuntu on a Centrino Duo laptop, which can change the
  frequency of each processor according to several factors. (I'm not
  sure if it can scale each core separately, though. The factors I know
  are load and whether or not I'm plugged in, there may be some other
  heuristics.)

  All this means that xy % processor usage can mean very different
  things in terms of how much work the computer is doing. At the very
  least, the legend below the graph -- [color] CPU#: ##.# % -- should be
  changed to something like [color] CPU#: ##.# % usage (at ## GHz) --
  though this doesn't fix the graph. Maybe a different line (different
  shade or dotted) could indicate the frequency of the processor.

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