jZnat's Journal: KNemo no good for laptops?

KNemo, a play on KNetworkmoitor, is a useful little applet that tracks your network interfaces and whatnot in your system tray (or whatever it's called). I have finally found out, however, that it is currently unsuitable for laptops as it constantly polls the network devices via ifconfig and other utilities every second, so that eats up CPU pretty fast and thus also causes kded to eat up CPU like there's no tomorrow. Sure, this would be negligible on a slightly modern desktop machine, but it takes a noticeable toll on a laptop's CPU and subsequently its battery life. For now, I would recommend avoiding it on laptops if you already have it installed.