Comment 8 for bug 599425

hey guys i've been on the road and forgot my mini so i'm hoping things
changed while i was on the road. will do some updates when i return tonight
and update to see how this works. what do i need to do to help out?

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <
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>
> Please don't keep deferring this. We have a real problem, we need to
> address it sooner rather than later.
>
> Mark
>
> --
> poor battery performance in Unity
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599425
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> Status in Unity: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> The battery life on my Netbook is being eaten up by the new update. I
> think the problem is the index is being built on battery and decreasing the
> time I have on battery.
>
> Updated on power, had a full charge, unplugged to go watch TV and logged
> into new Unity. Within 10 minutes I was at 1/2 battery life and 10 minutes
> later was done to 3/4 battery. Seems like an index was being built for the
> first time you use the search (zeitigest I think the application is
> called). Would be nice if there was a way to configure indexing on battery
> life.
>
> RUnning a Dell Mini 9 w/ 10.04 completly up to date. 1 GB of RAM on my
> netbook
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