Comments on: MiserWare Beta for Windows as well as Linux

By: popey

popey — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:39:02 +0000

I can’t imagine it would be hard to do..

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:22:43 +0000

Would be quite interesting to have this UI added to the Mac and Linux versions too.

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By: G_A_C

G_A_C — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:03:45 +0000

I’ve been running Micromiser on Linux for a while (both on my Core 2 Duo laptop, and now my new Atom-based Asrock) and been impressed. However, I installed it this evening on my laptop (dual booting Windows 7 x74 and Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on the same box) and it actually seemed to make it worse.

The laptop seemed sluggish, the fan seemed to be going louder for longer, and Task Manager showed “svchost.exe” using ~50% CPU (so all of one core). Thanks to the new Services tab in Win7′s Task Manager I can tie that particular instance of svchost.exe to which services it was actually running, which was “Power”, “Plug and Play” and “DCOMLaunch”. After quitting Micromiser, no sign of these issues.

I intend to have a better look at all this later this week when I have a bit more time at work and submit anything I find to Miserware to help them improve it, but it seems that currently on certain hardware it may actually make your experience (and battery life) worse due to the extra fan speed and sluggishness while you’re trying to use your computer…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:33:11 +0000

I tried it out, and I don’t see any measurable difference compared to the ondemand scheduler (Intel Core 2 dual-core processor). I know it uses more than just the maximum and minimum clock speeds, unlike ondemand, but I don’t see any practical difference.

Maybe it’s designed more for for AMD processors. I have no idea what their status is in terms of power management.