Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Sam Bailey wrote:
>>>> Try to disable slide-show in Kdesktop.
>>> it already is as I have the screensaver completely disabled.
>>
>> As have I on my machines.
>>
>> Is pasuspender the best to stop pulseaudio? or does it just reduce
>> the load a
>> little bit?
>
> pasuspender tells pulse to release the audio device, but it will still
> be running through it's mainloop. It should help, but I wouldn't use
> this as a technique to reduce pulse's use of CPU cycles.
Col, I have installed powertop as you suggested, and actioned its
recommendation of turning off hal's polling of the cdrom drive. Its
second recommendation I can't action because the facility doesn't exist
on my laptop (turning on HPET in the bios). The issue now is that the
application that is using most of the power when I am doing my
development work I can't do anything about, which is java consuming
67.5% of the power usage, it is a bit hard to do java development
without java (I am using eclipse and netbeans). What I don't understand,
assuming my assumptions are correct, is that assuming the power
consumptions by java hasn't changed from 1.6.0.4 to 1.6.0.6, why is
2008.1 more sensitive to it than 2008.0 was. The 1.6.0.4 version was
directly from Sun whereas the 1.6.0.6 version is Mandrivas version.

regards,
Steve

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