On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 05:34:18PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > One thing that really sticks out in this one for me
> > is rhn-applet-gui. That thing is just huge.
> That's the flashy "update me" thingy in the notification area,
right?
> First thing I kill after reinstalling :)
Yes. Also known as "evil force of forceful evil" in some circles.
Utterly. On multihead boxes I've seen it take 30% of the total CPU time
and 20% of the network bandwidth. Its eeeeevil because it should be a
service daemon so it runs *ONCE* and it should chat over dbus or something
to the display which -should-not-flash- - it's very bad UI design (movement
out of the user focus area is distracting) and sucks resources.
If someone could have that fixed and in testing tomorrow that would be
fantastic ;)
Alan