diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a27b446c..fc34705e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,8 +9,14 @@ byobu (2.12) unreleased; urgency=low
     all status scripts from *-* to *_*; this allows us to source the
     ~/.byobu/status file, rather than grepping through it for configuration
     information, yielding significant performance improvements, LP: #386546
-  * profiles/common: drop mem-used to run every 10 seconds, and disk-used to
-    run every 30 seconds, and wifi_quality to run every 10 seconds
+  * profiles/common:
+    - decrease mem-used to run every 10 seconds
+    - decrease disk-used to run every 30 seconds
+    - decrease wifi_quality to run every 10 seconds
+    - decrease release to run every 60 minutes, to handle dist upgrades
+    - decrease processes to run every 10 seconds
+    - increase hostname to run every 10 minutes, since its cheap
+    - increase uptime to run every 30 seconds, since its cheap
   * bin/wifi_quality: significant performance improvements, remove unneeded
     route call, cache iwconfig output so that it's only called once
   * bin/processes: improve performance by listing /proc (doubles the speed)
@@ -25,7 +31,7 @@ byobu (2.12) unreleased; urgency=low
   * bin/cpu-freq: drop "cat" and just use awk, don't printf twice,
     performance improvements
 
- -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:04:13 -0500
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:28:35 -0500
 
 byobu (2.11-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/profiles/common b/profiles/common
index b78f7b12..ef5e972e 100644
--- a/profiles/common
+++ b/profiles/common
@@ -36,20 +36,20 @@ backtick 105 86400 86400 byobu-status mem_available
 backtick 106 2 2 byobu-status load_average
 backtick 107 10 10 byobu-status mem_used
 backtick 108 600 600 byobu-status ec2_cost
-backtick 109 3600 3600 byobu-status hostname
+backtick 109 600 600 byobu-status hostname
 backtick 110 86400 86400 byobu-status whoami
 backtick 111 86400 86400 byobu-status menu
 backtick 112 86400 86400 byobu-status arch
 backtick 113 30 30 byobu-status battery
 backtick 114 10 10 byobu-status users
-backtick 115 60 60 byobu-status uptime
-backtick 116 2 2 byobu-status processes
+backtick 115 30 30 byobu-status uptime
+backtick 116 10 10 byobu-status processes
 backtick 117 2 2 byobu-status network
 backtick 118 86400 86400 true
 backtick 119 10 10 byobu-status wifi_quality
 backtick 120 86400 86400 byobu-status date
 backtick 121 86400 86400 byobu-status time
-backtick 122 3600 3600 byobu-status ip_address
+backtick 122 600 600 byobu-status ip_address
 backtick 123 86400 86400 byobu-status disk_available
 backtick 124 30 30 byobu-status disk_used
 backtick 125 30 30 byobu-status temp_c