On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:50:57 -0600 >> >> > > 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. >> >> the biggest cost is the process lookup via sysctl. I think this tmux >> feature is simply too costly, anywhere. > > I really like the feature though.
Perhaps off by default, selectable from the command line, and toggelable interactively would work? -- Raul
