I have noticed that App Control consumes a fair bit of power by monitoring it via task manager. Are there any plans to reduce the power consumption as well as actually having the ability to display Power usage similar to what Task Manager Provides
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How would that not be a self-evident outcome? Like WordPad vs MS Word.
Hi Surt. I don’t quite understand the response. Any app consumes power. What I am asking is whether there are plans to reduce the Power consumption for this app. Task Manager often reports that App Control Power Consumption is High to very High
Thanks for your feedback. We already have an optional setting to improve any resource usage from AppControl. https://blog.appcontrol.com/appcontrols-efficient-mode-and-upcoming-pause-feature-explained/
We’re also planning a new optional pause feature too if you are someone who doesn’t need to always save history.
On top of these two things, AppControl is still currently in beta (the app has been out for around two weeks and it’s our first release version) and we are working to improve its resource usage all the time along with adding additional options and features to improve resource usage even further.
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Apologies! I misread your post.
Over here the power usage and power usage trend have been constantly very low. And I’ve been hammering AppControl, mostly gathering data for my “WAN Connectivity - Needed or Not” topic. And chiefly playing with The New Thing.
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Yes, our team is seeing something similar. But it’s not acceptable for us to use much resources so we’ll keep working to improve these numbers further! @thylocene if you could share some details of your hardware we can work to improve further. Maybe you use something our team doesn’t, so we are missing out on optimizing something. Any hardware details would help us improve this and it’s critical we do so. Thanks for pointing out this issue.
My PC details are:
System Model: HP ZBook Fury 15.6 inch G8 Mobile Workstation PC
System Type: x64-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 141 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~2611 Mhz
BIOS Version: HP T95 Ver. 01.18.00, 27/08/2024
Total Physical Memory: 65,236 MB
Available Physical Memory: 36,814 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 74,964 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 41,590 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 33,374 MB
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Thanks @thylocene, I’ll share this with our team and we’ll see if we can find a similar hardware to try to reproduce this with so we can improve our resource usage.
Can you post what you are seeing compared to our own post above? It shows “high” for you there instead of our “very low”?
AppControl will use some resources when it’s actively used, just like when you actively use Task Manager, but if you close AppControl in the tray when you are not using it then the resource usage should be “very low” as shown above. Are you leaving it open and maybe the GPU is drawing the graphs?
It is unacceptable for a resource monitor to use significant resources of course, so we will keep working to improve. Thanks for posting this so we can investigate and keep minimizing our impact further!
May I suggest you enable the Power usage trend column?
FYI: E8400 Core 2 Duo; G35 chipset; 4GB RAM; 500GB HDD; Win10pro 22H2.
Cheers.
Hi Surt,
I think you have misread the request again. I know how to add columns to Task Manager. What I cannot determine is whether or not it is possible to do the same in App Control i.e. I can’t find an option to display Power Usage in App Control
@thylocene thanks for your feedback on adding power usage monitoring with AppControl in the future. We have thought about adding kind of a heat map view for different things and if we did then power usage would be an important one to consider.
The post and screen shot was for AppControlOfficial based on his screen shot. Than again, he might have it enabled and just clipped the screenshot at that point…
Hope you get your power issue squared away. I’m done here. Cheers.