Activity monitor remains blank

I installed OS X Mavericks. It's great. Speeds up a lot of things, but, the activity monitor is a bit laggy, may be even buggy. Previously on Mountain Lion, whenever I opened Activity monitor, it showed all the active processes. But now when I open it, the window remains blank. I have to manually do view> all processes to show things up.
Also the update frequency has been slow, very slow in Activity monitor. Am I the only one or others are facing the same problem?

I have more information. I read a post here that claimed wake up from S3 stops working if you over clock BCLK past 170.  I reset my bios to safe settings and set up hybrid S3 sleep and it worked !!!
Next step was to start to apply my over clock one step at a time and find which bit was messing up S3 wake up. It does seem to be the BCLK. With memory clock multiplier set very low so that memory wasn't the problem, I adjusted BCLK upwards until S3 wakeup stopped working. I haven't finished testing yet but it is somewhere between 165 and 170. As long as BCLK is at 165, wake up from S3 works fine. The other post can be red here:-
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=136780.0
If this is the problem, it's very disappointing because my system runs stable at BCLK 195 with the multiplier at 21.
Mike H

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    sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/loginwindow AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary -array-add '{"Path" = "/opt/data/Monitor.app";"Hide" = "0";}'
        Is it a side effect of finder known issue in Lion ?  Or I need to use another way like "Launch Daemon" or "Launch Agent" to do?
    Many thanks for your comment.
    Jason

    I suspect it's Photoshop Express, the Adobe Touch App from the App Store
    http://www.photoshop.com/tools/expresseditor
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8&ls=1
    Express forum
    http://forums.adobe.com/community/psexpress

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