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From: thockin@hockin.org
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Cc: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>,
	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sven@mvista.com>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:13:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060114011333.GA9371@hockin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C848C7.1070701@domdv.de>

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:41:43AM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> > more precisely 1/4 KW Hour / day
> > 
> > $0.01 - $0.02/day (I had to lookup the current rates)
> > 
> > they probably won't notice.
> 
> Well, wait until there's AMD based dual core x86_64 laptops out there
> (this email being written on a single core x86_64 one). I can already
> see the faces of the unhappy future owners being told "use idle=poll"
> when on battery and anyway going deaf by fan noise.

Yeah, and then multiply that cost by a few tens of thousands of servers.

idle=poll is a hack at best.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-14  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-12 22:17 Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs Lee Revell
2006-01-13 15:10 ` Roger Heflin
2006-01-13 16:04   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 17:47     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 17:52       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 17:54         ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:41           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 18:55             ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:09               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 20:26                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 20:40                   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:43                   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:46                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 20:48                       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 20:51                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 20:52                         ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 21:05                       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-13 21:10                         ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-13 21:17                           ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16  9:52                             ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-01-16 15:55                               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  0:23                 ` john stultz
2006-01-14  1:10                   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  1:14                     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-14  1:23                       ` john stultz
2006-01-14  1:27                         ` Lee Revell
2006-01-14  1:39                           ` john stultz
2006-01-14  1:43                             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  1:50                               ` john stultz
2006-01-14  2:15                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-14  2:34                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-01-16  1:19                             ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14  6:54               ` Christoph Lameter
2006-01-13 18:06 ` thockin
2006-01-13 17:58   ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:16     ` thockin
2006-01-13 18:09       ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 18:55         ` thockin
2006-01-13 18:56           ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 19:00             ` Lee Revell
2006-01-13 19:07               ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 21:18               ` David Lang
2006-01-13 21:56                 ` thockin
2006-01-13 22:05                   ` David Lang
2006-01-13 22:18                     ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2006-01-13 22:49                       ` David Lang
2006-01-14  0:41                         ` Andreas Steinmetz
2006-01-14  1:04                           ` David Lang
2006-01-14  1:21                             ` Andreas Steinmetz
2006-01-14  1:51                               ` thockin
2006-01-15  8:52                             ` Zan Lynx
2006-01-15 16:25                               ` thockin
2006-01-15 16:33                                 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-15 18:21                                   ` thockin
2006-01-15 18:29                                     ` Lee Revell
2006-01-15 18:49                                       ` thockin
2006-01-14  1:13                           ` thockin [this message]
2006-01-13 22:23                     ` thockin
2006-01-13 19:13             ` Xavier Bestel
2006-01-13 19:32             ` thockin
2006-01-13 20:58               ` Steven Rostedt
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2006-01-14  0:24               ` Robert Hancock

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