Re: [pygame] Battery Life

[James Paige <Bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:31:34PM -0700, The dob wrote:
> Hi. I'm having a battery problem.
> 
> I'm running pygame on Maemo (linux on a mobile device). In my main
> game loop I am using pygame.event.wait() and sleeping all other
> running threads. To me this means that until there is an event, the
> process should not consume very much processor time. Unfortunately,
> the battery on the device still drains very quickly (about 4 hours
> when idle, as compared to 2 days while other applications are idle).
> 
> Running 'top' does not indicate that the idle process is consuming
> very much processing power either.
> 
> Has anybody dealt with a similar issue, or have any recommendations?
> 
> Thanks,
> Doug

I would be curious if your pygame app is running in full-screen. I don't 
know anything about the Maemo hardware, but I have seen some other 
hardware where displaying a full-screen window in a non-default 
resolution causes a hardware scaler to be used. Such a scaler could 
impact battery life.

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James Paige