Re: Options for kdepim using kde 4.7/unstable?
Hello Dietz,
Am Freitag, 16. März 2012, 10:53:46 schrieb Dietz Pröpper:
> Martin Steigerwald:
> > Am Dienstag, 13. März 2012 schrieb Dietz Pröpper:
> > > Current kde from unstable is a bad idea for a laptop imho, because for
> > > some reason, plasma-desktop permanently pulls some % of cpu time,
> > > therefore ruining battery life.
> >
> > It might do so on your machine(s).
>
> Obviously :-\.
>
> > On my machines it doesn´t.
>
> Ack.
>
> > plasma-desktop might pull CPU time permanently due to some widget you
> > have installed that I may not have installed.
>
> I suspect something like that, but can't nail it down. The fact, that if I
> fire up gnome, I see the "expected" consumption, around 15W, and on a
> freshly created account, kde pulls around 22W idleing around indicates that
> it's in some way kde related I think.
have you tried "powertop" [1] to get an idea which process might be
responsible for the power consumption?
Kind regards
Benjamin
[1] http://packages.debian.org/powertop
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