On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Michael Towers <larch42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Given the difficulty of finding the optimal solution to this problem, > I think I agree with the earlier suggestion to just monitor the > situation and report to the user if there is a problem - and provide a > useful account of how to handle it. I imagine it would not be too > difficult to write cron scripts to monitor the count. Perhaps one > could measure load cycles over the last hour, the last day and the > last month, for example. There could be some sort of notification if > some threshold or other was overstepped. At this point it is of course > less straightforward - what sort of notification should that be? A > 'normal' desktop notification would perhaps work for most users? > > Normally I wouldn't suggest something like this here for fear of > getting my knuckles rapped - at present I really don't have time to do > it myself - but maybe someone is just itching to get going on a little > project like this. > That does not sound like a bad idea. And it could benefit to all distro, not only arch.
