System Monitor remains busy for 15 - 20 minutes after startup

[Joep L. Blom]

Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, February 18, 2010 01:47 PM, Ashish Vijaywargiya wrote:
>> Hello Friends,
>>
>> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 since last few months. After startup it keeps
>> system monitor busy for about 15 - 20 minutes.
>> Please refer the image:
>> http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9476/systemmonitorbusyinproc.png
>>
>> How can I know which process is running in the background that is
>> busying this system monitor? And permanent fix of this problem.
>> This degrades the performance of my Laptop for initial 15- 20 minutes.
>>
> 
My advise would be to run gkrelmm its in the repositories). When well 
configured it gives you - graphically - the load, as well in total as 
per processor and shows the top x processes (in my case 3). You can 
easily see which processor is maximally loaded together with the overall 
load and and which process gives the highest load.
Joep