well, I've noticed higher consumption after installing 1909 version... I regularly monitor consumption especially after installing some new always online app (or version)... at the same time I noticed higher consumption these two processes were at the top of the htop output... and Audio started to be on top of the battery consumption percentage in Battery Usage app... all of this appeared when notification menu had been introduced in settings menu of wazapp, I think... my output of the line You gave me: 553 pulse /usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --high-priority --log-level=0 2395 user grep pulseaudio