Google Talk causes slow wake from sleep.

I noticed for the past couple of weeks if I leave my machine (Sony FZ190) in sleep mode for an extended period of time (more than an hour or so) it would take 20-30 seconds to wake up. If I left it in sleep mode for a short period of time it would wake instantly.

I looked in the System log and filtered it for the source "Power-Troubleshooter" and looked at the Detail tab which exposes, among other things, info about Wake Duration and Driver Init Duration. Here are two samples:

The first is a normal wake:

Code:

EventData 

  SleepTime 2010-02-18T00:33:56.005200500Z 
  WakeTime 2010-02-18T00:35:12.459169200Z 
  SleepDuration 3443 
  WakeDuration 921 
  DriverInitDuration 507

This is a slow wake:

Code:

EventData 

  SleepTime 2010-02-18T22:54:20.397004100Z 
  WakeTime 2010-02-19T04:42:15.121124100Z 
  SleepDuration 5163 
  WakeDuration 28125 
  DriverInitDuration 23962  

I found the first instance of a long wake cycle and made note of the date. I then cross referenced that date to a chronicle/diary I keep of all application/driver installs and system changes. I noticed that the day before the first entry I had installed Google Talk. It was set up to run at boottime, so it is always on.

Last night before I put the machine to sleep I shut down Google Talk. Low and behold, this morning the machine woke up instantly. Good bye Google talk! I am now uninstalling it. I'll use something else.

I have subsequently found out that I was not the only person who has had this exact same issue and find. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Talk/thread?tid=38c3bd0ecec21d50&hl=en

Gary