[Bug 18632] New: multiload-applet-2's "network use" graph is almost useless

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Ubuntu | gnome-applets

           Summary: multiload-applet-2's "network use" graph is almost
                    useless
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gnome-applets
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: dooglus at gmail.com
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Gnome's system monitor can put a small graph of network usage in the panel.  The
graph it shows is automatically scaled, so it is impossible to tell whether the
network is busy or not.

Sometimes I have a steady 1k per second of transfer and the graph shows a high
level and tooltip tells me that network is 90% in use.  Other times I can be
downloading 200k per second from a bursty torrent and see network 5% in use. 
The autoscaler doesn't give any indication of what scale it is using, which
makes it impossible to interpret the graph.

The disk usage graph also uses the autoscaler, and so presumably suffers from
the same problem.

(version: breezy)

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