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Date:      Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:54:19 -0800
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        "Mullen, Adam" <Adam.Mullen@c-b.com>
Cc:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, current@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: [TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches
Message-ID:  <1138388059.56322.9.camel@realtime.exit.com>
In-Reply-To: <E6243148329F3A468BC8F98468FC4BB405C4C3FE@fw1-ex03.c-b.net>
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On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:39 -0600, Mullen, Adam wrote:
> Lets see here though, how many of us have a 100 node beowulf cluster who
> use FreeBSD daily?  I know I don't!  I've been following this
> conversation and my 2 cents are this, taking into consideration cpu time
> accounting for machines that use power management is trivial.  I view
> those that use power management are a lot less likely to be in an
> environment where they are either A) billing for utility computing, B)
> care about 99.9999% accurate cpu time accounting, C) have a need for
> this precision.  My thought is that a blurb be submitted with this patch
> specifying the caveats if powersaved is also used.  Just my humble
> opinion.

Hey, you don't have to run a 100-node Beowulf cluster to benefit from
this.  It would be nice if my systems in my home office would throttle
down when they're relatively idle; that might defray some of the
several-hundred-dollar electric bill I pay monthly, and during the
summer it might even keep the room cooler.
-- 
Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com     http://www.exit.com/
Exit Consulting                 http://www.gpsclock.com/
                                http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/



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