On Sun, 09 Oct 2022 12:11:24 +0100 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > Reporting this as "important" because as far as I can tell my battery > life has gone down noticeably since switching from Pulseaudio to Pipewire. > > Even when not playing any sound whatsoever, pipewire is waking up more > than a hundred times per second, and using ~10ms of CPU out of every 1s. > > This keeps the CPU in lower sleep states, and uses more battery.
Following up on this, I think this is caused by speech-dispatcher: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022120