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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: priority of ksysguard
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-02-27 23:16:21
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On Thursday 27 February 2003 22:36, Eric Ellsworth wrote:
> As long as we're on the subject of heavy load, what about providing some or
> all of the following:
> 	A notification to the user that the system is under heavy load and may be
> less responsive now or shortly.
> 	Warning/prevention against launching multiple applications or actions
> (e.g. when the user keeps clicking on the Konqueror icon because nothing is
> happening)
> 	An explanation, if possible, of what processes are responsible for this
> load. A great example is when slocate's update process runs - as per
> Manuel's points, the disk thrashing is likely what's slowing down the
> machine here.
>
> How hard would these be?  If Ksysguard daemon is running, could it issue
> some of these messages?

You may want to explore kicker->Add->Applet->Runaway process catcher

Cheers,
Waldo
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