> > 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.
