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Date:      Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:02:40 +0000
From:      Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches
Message-ID:  <200601281502.41298.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
In-Reply-To: <p06230918c000153b7d09@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Friday 27 January 2006 18:30, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 4:03 AM -0500 1/27/06, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> >Let's not forget, FreeBSD is really a server OS. Who in their right
> >mind uses power saving features on a server? It sounds nice in
> >theory, but doesn't work as well.
>
> 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.

Good point - As much as I hate the marketing hype around the info-watt 
concepts - It would be nice to be able to track the consumption 



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