On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 04:25:38PM -0600, Rugxulo wrote: > IIRC, trying IDLEHALT under virtual machine (MetaDOS) showed > noticeable improvement, at least sitting at the prompt doing nothing > (Win7 Task Manager). But of course any app (e.g. text editor) polling > incessantly wouldn't take advantage (although even there some can > handle themselves, e.g. TDE using DPMI idle or whatever, I forget the > details). Yes, that was using FreeCOM 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap and FD kernel > 2041 (with very minor, unrelated, patches). I assume you're using > kernel 2042? I doubt it's a regression or difference, just trying to > be exact.
>From what I see it's 2042 (May 2016). > Not sure exactly what Volkov Commander and 4DOS are doing "better" > than FreeCOM. I'd like to learn it - please, note: VC is actually quite an oldie, created at the time no one heard about IDLEHALT, "timeslices" etc. - and very few were taking care about "energy saving features" etc. > Keep in mind that an AthlonXP-based setup (P3 clone) is > quite different compared to newer machines. It's quite a convoluted > mess trying to support so much hardware over decades. I still > sympathize, but I really don't know what to tell you. I suspect FDAPM > just doesn't have accurate stats. With what other methods would you > know if it was working (conserving) or not? Just the fan ramping up? As I wrote I noticed overheating - my machine repeatedly got switched off by its thermal fuse. And it's actually enough to touch the box to notice difference -- regards, Zbigniew _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
