Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]

On 04/08/2011 12:11 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Monaco wrote:

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I like having volume control for HDMI out. And I like that this mysterious starving audio, playing silence, glitch has disappeared. But I don't like that pulse uses so much CPU and i think it's a major reason why my computer is runn 5-8 degrees C hotter with gnome3 FWIW, this is almost certainly a bug that can be fixed. In my experience PA allows huge power savings compared to ALSA (down from more than 100 wakeups/sec to less than 10 wakeups/sec).

Try debugging a bit to see what is going on powertop2 should be very helpful.

Cheers,

Tom It could also be that GNOME 3 uses hardware acceleration by default[1]. If weren't running Compiz before, it might be making a difference (I have no idea how it compares if you were using Compiz before).

[1] http://www.gnome3.org/faq.html - See "Will my computer be able to run GNOME 3?"