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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:44:09 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg>
To:        Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Power consumption in desktop computers
Message-ID:  <3FF0F489.1040401@pacific.net.sg>
In-Reply-To: <3FF0ECEE.2000701@gmx.net>
References:  <20031225224609.A5326@cons.org> <3FEF2D62.8010906@acm.org> <20031229170255.A87023@cons.org> <3FF0C8D8.3040205@pacific.net.sg> <3FF0ECEE.2000701@gmx.net>

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Hi,

Marcin Dalecki wrote:

> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
>> The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle.
>>
>>> Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s?
>>
>>
>>
>> No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle.
> 
> 
> Which is bullshit becouse most of the CPUs those days don't run
> desktops and text processing.

And all servers run 100% CPU load all the time?

You also should check what he was asking originally.

Erich



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