On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Eric Wood wrote: > I've also found that the gnome-applet "wireless link monitor" keeps ticking > the hard drive every second. Based on signal strength the applet re-reads > the same set of png files in /usr/share/pixmaps/wireless-applet/. I'm > probaby going to wear those sectors out on my hard drive! ;-O > > Ideally, these small png's need to be kept in memory rather than continously > re-read every second. while this is late in coming, that was the culprit on my laptop as well. thanks for suggesting it. rday
