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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:30:03 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches
Message-ID:  <p06230918c000153b7d09@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <43D9E1D2.6060207@rogers.com>
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>

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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.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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