Gnome hard disk monitor panel applet registers 0% activity in RHEL 6

Issue

The hard disk monitor of the system monitor applet is failing to show any activity even though the hard disk is active.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
gnome-system-monitor

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