> ktrace reveals that it's doing a wakeup every half second to stat and probe > each terminal and process group. My opinion is that while the status bar > updates are cool when I'm watching, if there's nobody attached this is wasted > effort.
It's not your opinion, it's a fact. I've been running tmux with set-option -g status off set-window-option -g monitor-activity off in my ~/.tmux.conf since about the time tmux got imported for this reason, so that tmux does not cause a significant overhead when building on power-challenged platforms.
