Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:59:39 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches Message-ID: <43DA7BAB.7030602@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <p06230918c000153b7d09@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20060125201450.GE25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <56988.1138220896@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060126101138.GA40773@uk.tiscali.com> <20060127024432.GT69162@funkthat.com> <20060127085653.GA51554@uk.tiscali.com> <43D9E1D2.6060207@rogers.com> <p06230918c000153b7d09@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At Apparently your power and cooling bills are much lower than ours. > > We would very much love it if the computers will use only the > energy they need to get the job done. Yes, that means a big > bill when some simulation is running on a 100-node beowulf > cluster. But it also means we don't want to be paying the bill > to run that cluster at full-throttle when there's no work for > those CPU's to do. > As i just mentioned, i don't know of any colo that charges for your power usage, you pay by U's and bandwidth. Are you running a 100 node freebsd cluster? I didn't think so. Besides, nothing is stopping you from using powerd, just make sure you have a new chipset that has either speedstep or powernow, otherwise its useless.
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