Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:39:46 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, drony@spray.se Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HLT Message-ID: <p04330109b62613318f98@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200010310548.WAA25053@usr02.primenet.com> References: <200010310548.WAA25053@usr02.primenet.com>
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At 5:48 AM +0000 10/31/00, Terry Lambert wrote: >I think the real question is why, under normal operating >conditions, should overheating be a problem for you? While that is a good question, there's another question that comes to my mind. If my dual-processor system will have close-to-nothing to do all night while I'm out of the office, then why should I have both CPU's running at full-bore? What is the advantage of burning up the extra electricity and generating the extra heat, when there's going to be nothing to do for several hours? I agree that a person should not have to depend on HLT behavior to avoid overheating, but it would be nice if a basically-idle multi-processor machine would use less energy. -- --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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