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]> References: <20060125201450.GE25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <43D9E1D2.6060207@rogers.com> <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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