Power Saving Software for Linux
My friend Alan sent me an invitation to sign up for a beta trial of MiserWare‘s MicroMiser power saving software.
MiserWare MicroMiser is an intelligent software power management solution for x86 servers, laptops, and PCs running Linux. MicroMiser automatically optimizes a system to use energy more efficiently without compromising performance or availability. The MicroMiser Power Management Daemon (see below) when installed on a server, laptop, or PC, matches the energy consumed by the system to the load on the system automatically. MicroMiser typically lowers total system energy use by 10-35% even when a system is 100% utilized. MicroMiser also tracks the energy saved for use in estimating cost savings and carbon emission reductions.
I have installed it on 4 PCs so far and all seems to be fine. Installation is very simple as the download is in a deb or rpm package.
I am especially interested to monitor any battery-life performance improvements on my laptop computers and any savings to my always-on–home-server will be most appreciated. The site has downloads for most of the recent Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, RHEL, and SLES distributions.
It appears to work on VIA C7 chips, and Intel Core2 8X00 and mobile T5000 series. Well, it does for me.
As you can see above, the company claim between 10 and 35% power savings with this software which is definately not to be sneezed at in these frugal times.
If you would like to take part in the beta, leave a comment below (I need your email address, which is not shown if you just fill in the comment form boxes) and I will endeavour to get you an invite.
Tags: Alan Pope, Fedora, Linux, Miserware, Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu
Hi, I would like an invitation to try the MiserWare software if you don’t mind 🙂
Thanks a lot before.
I’d love it if you could send me a invite.
Thanks.
@rakhmad, Thomas,
Done.
I’d appreciate a MiserWare invite please. I have 2 x 24/7 servers and 2 laptops, all with Ubuntu
yes please!
1 more pls
All done so far. If you haven’t had an invite let me know.
I’d love an invite as well. Thanks!
I’m intrigued. I’ve mailed them for a beta invite. Any idea how it works?
@Richard you need to be invited. I have forward your email to them.
@Tony you should have received yours too.
Thanks
Yes please! Home servers are sucking lotsa juice.
Hi. Thanks for your blog. I’d like to have an invitation as well 😉 Thanks in advanced
@Richard and Lasombra you should have both received your invites by now.
Hi, thanks, that sounds interesting. What do you think it does under the hood? And if I may ask:
“It appears to work on VIA C7 chips, and Intel Core2 8X00 and mobile T5000 series. Well, it does for me.”
Do you mean that it doesn’t crash your systems, or that you’ve measured real power savings?
Thanks.
I’d really like an invite, if you have anymore to give out 🙂
This sounds really interesting!
@Ketil, done.
@yungchin, See this subsequent post (http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/05/13/over-65-power-reduction-on-my-ubuntu-server/) and I’ve sent you an invite too!
Many thanks, that was fast! I’ll be curious to see it in action. I’ll need to set up a test system for it though. Thanks also for reporting the power savings. However, those numbers are calculated by the application itself – how reliable could they be?
Is it possible to get an invite..?
I tried but the email address you left bounced.
einfeldt’s status on Wednesday, 13-May-09 20:16:27 UTC…
Worth testing: RT @glynmoody RT @opensourcerer Am looking for more Linux users who want to reduce their energy bills: http://cli.gs/VPsZ3M…
Hi Alan,
If you send another invite that would be magic.
Thanks,
Alan.
Sounds worth a try, if you could get me an invite – thanks!
Hi Alan
I’d love an invite too, please.
Thanks,
Vitor
I’d be interested in trying it
Thanx for bring this to our attention
James
I would love to give it a go. Would you mind sending me an invite as well? Yesterday I was actually measuring current usage of pcs, laptops and other hardware to minimise my usage. astonishing, how much just standby uses uo. I will blog the results in the next weeks on my site Cheeers, linuxnetzer
Well, darn it. So the Viglen MPC-L uses a Geode GX2 CPU which I thought supported CPU frequency scaling (not that there’s a lot to scale!) … but the Ubuntu kernels don’t seem to have the right modules, or else generally there’s a limitation on the hardware.
Please send me an invite for MicroMiser. I use Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenSUSE 11.1.
Thanks
So everyone who asked for an invite should have received them. If you haven’t please let me know and I’ll check.
I have not been told to stop asking for new participants so I’m assuming they have more space. In fact, you can – once registered – start inviting your own colleagues too.
Hi,
WOW, that seems awesome, and for my old pc with 1, 1:30 hours of maximum charge, it would really rock! I would like to ask an invitation, please…
Keep the good work spreading the word about Linux, as i do in my own blog.
Greets from Portugal,
dany
This looks great! just got an additional power bill of 2000 euro’s, so if you ‘ve got another invite left, my childrens college fund will be thankfull 🙂
Sounds interest, why is this an invite only though? Do they track it specifically on their servers? At any rate i’d like an invite if you have any.
Thanks.
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yes please – love to try this.
I would be interested if you are still able to accept new testers
Thanks Tony
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yes please, one for me if still available 🙂
Michael, unfortunately your invite was rejected:
“Remote host said: 554 “Refused. You have no reverse DNS entry. Contact abuse@***********.com for details.””
If you have an alternative email address that would be good.
I’m keen if you’re still able to offer invites. Thanks.
Is it too late for me? Thanks anyway.
@Enrico, No it isn’t too late. You should receive an invite shortly.
I’d love to try this!
Could you send me an invite?
Thanks!
I’d like to try this. I wonder whether it will noticeably affect my laptop’s battery life.
The trial continues until the end of June so there is still time to get on board if you want. Just leave a comment.
Everyone who has requested an invite should have received one. If not, check your spam bucket.
I’d love an invite.
Sounds like a great Project, can I please have an invite, Cheers.
Hello,
I would love an invite for the beta of this micromiser.
I would appreciate it so much.
used my actual email on this comment.
Thanks
I would like to try this software please. Have a great day everyone!!
Ditto, I would be honored to be invited to try this out.
Hi, can I get one of those invites? How is this working for everyone?
Hello,
I would much appreciate an invite. Thanks!!
Hi Alan
I’d love an invite too, please.
Thanks,
Dakotah
Please can I have an invite. Thankyou Ian
Hi, I would like an invitation to try the MiserWare software if you don’t mind
The system says your email address has already been sent an invite.