Monitor itself drains CPU and laptop battery
Mission Center's own monitoring uses noticeable CPU and power, draining laptop batteries and waking the GPU.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 17 July 2023 · last reported 8 May 2025
What's going wrong
Several users report that Mission Center, a Linux system monitor, uses a surprising share of CPU while it runs, even when they expect it to be light.
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