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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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