Re: Help understanding /proc/apm
Damian Gerow <[email protected]>
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Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: : I'm running Ubuntu on an old PowerBook G4. I can't run the default : battery monitor, gnome_power_manager since it interferes with suspend : when I close the lid. And the Xlib it has really sucks CPU cycles, so : any monitor I find takes 3 to 4% of my CPU to run. So, I thought I'd : write my own. Yeah, that's the problem with monitoring (speaking as a guy with a hefty background in monitoring): it takes cycles to monitor this stuff. Have you looked at gkrellm? I'd imagine you have, but if not, it's an awfully popular package. Just not sure how well it jives with Gnome. And since you're trying to save 2-3% of CPU time by writing your own system monitor, I have to ask another question: why Gnome? Why not something a little lighter, like one of the boxes (fluxbox, openbox, blackbox)? -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug