Some quirks in nyx

I have noticed a couple quirks in nyx and wonder if anyone knows a way around them.

  1. When I start nyx after a some down time, it shows in one bar the amount of traffic that has occured in the entire time it was off. In my case, since my bar graph takes ten minutes to cycle, this throws off the bar graph for a long time.
  2. Whenever I change a variable value in nyx, all the directories show me as “Descriptor Mismatch”. I change values in nyx to avoid having to reboot tor - but it ends up that I have to anyway.

Any workaround for either of these issues?