From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 19:59:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014D416A422 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:59:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1522D43D73 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:59:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 36922 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2006 19:59:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=PAchpL6Y8qjfz7yJI5TMkS0nE+6xW8OODk94hppdVg3FPBPsWvfUbd3j3dX8CcU4Y7ZuNGbyutnFGppuk+RoGQN3BBLySsn8IzdQCLCMJqN7+wbFKTJY+KtTEDU+BppjQpAEn4Sb4DT23onbDp50MSOaRmv0Y7gZlBk5XMC3NlU= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?70.30.133.184?) (mikej@rogers.com@70.30.133.184 with plain) by smtp104.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2006 19:59:31 -0000 Message-ID: <43DA7BAB.7030602@rogers.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:59:39 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:59:40 -0000 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.