[time-nuts] Lady Heather on low power CPU/Linux?

[John Ackermann N8UR]

FWIW, I'm running an Atom D510 motherboard with an 8 port serial card. 
I'm using Windows 7 and VNC for remote access (the machine runs 
headless).  I am regularly running LH v3 beta, TimeLab (reading PPS data 
from a TIC), TAC32, and GPSCon each on its own serial port 
simultaneously without any problems.  I normally only have two of the 
apps maximized, but don't see any significant lags.

The only problem I've had was the dreaded Microsoft 
serial-mouse-on-bootup issue.  If you think it's fun watching one 
phantom mouse scribbling on your screen, wait until you try it with 
four!   (BTW -- apparently, under Win7 the old switch to turn of serial 
mouse detection no longer works; all you can do is go into the control 
panel mouse settings and disable each phantom serial mouse separately.)

John
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John Miles said the following on 02/22/2012 06:09 PM:
> Are you running the v3 beta?  I normally run the program 24/7 on a 300 MHz
> laptop here, acting as both a server for two Thunderbolts and a client.
> There were some improvements to CPU utilization in the current beta, and its
> UI response should be essentially instantaneous.
>
> -- john
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-
>> bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Achim Vollhardt
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:26 PM
>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>> Subject: [time-nuts] Lady Heather on low power CPU/Linux?
>>
>> Fellow Time-Nuts,
>> I am trying to run LH on an Alix 3D3 single-board PC:
>>
>> http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm
>>
>> Being only a 500 MHz Geode CPU, there is not much power to work with.
>> Still, running Debian Linux with Wine allowed me to make LH work..
>>
>> BUT: A single second tick takes about 3-4 seconds to show up.. needless
>> to say that LH never catches up again and user interaction is painful at
>> best.
>>
>> I tried the /tw=50 setting for less CPU usage with little effect. Is
>> there anything else I can do?
>>
>> Strictly speaking, I would only need the active temperature control, I
>> could spare all the other features..
>>
>> Any comments out there?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Achim
>>
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