Package: gksu Version: 2.0.0-1 On my Debian Etch install with backported 2.6.22 kernel, running any application that uses gksu (such as the Root Terminal) causes an extraordinarily high amount of wakeups (and thus, a large amount of power to be consumed) as measured with the PowerTOP 1.7 tool. In the case of applications which use gksu for authentication, this continues as long as the application is open, and does NOT stop after the user has successfully authenticated.
For comparison: System with gnome-terminal open, doing nothing: Wakeups-from-idle per second : 422.0 System with gnome-terminal open, doing nothing (invoked with gksu): Wakeups-from-idle per second : 1550.6 This needs to be fixed...
