* Steve Morris <samorris@(protected)]:
> 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.

Did you measure with powertop the power consumption of java in 2008.0?