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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Christian Kujau <christian@g-house.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20.4: NETDEV WATCHDOG and lockups
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:28:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4612648D.4090904@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.G7qJfhdvOynxlffny+Xc1kIaqBY@ifi.uio.no>

Christian Kujau wrote:
> Len et al., do you even suggest to use ACPI on a server system at all? I 
> myself always thought of ACPI being evil and to avoid when possible 
> (thus switching it off completely on a serversystem).

These days I think it's usually best to have ACPI on with current 
systems. Although it's not as bad with servers, many machines are 
designed to run only Windows (which normally always uses ACPI) and 
simply aren't tested well or at all with ACPI disabled so you can run 
into a lot of problems which are just bugs in the BIOS, etc.

Also, on the server side, if ACPI is disabled you can't take advantage 
of CPU clock frequency scaling to save power.

-- 
Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2007-04-03 14:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.P3upyx4QAcXHtp/c/s+b4/cKk5w@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.u/RjoL2ybMMaAY+GDfTzm7jO5d0@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.G7qJfhdvOynxlffny+Xc1kIaqBY@ifi.uio.no>
2007-04-03 14:28     ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-04-03 15:26       ` 2.6.20.4: NETDEV WATCHDOG and lockups Christian Kujau
2007-04-03 15:41         ` Lee Revell
2007-04-02 19:41 Christian Kujau
2007-04-02 20:20 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-02 21:15   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03  5:34   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03 15:17   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03  5:20 ` Len Brown
2007-04-03  5:46   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03  6:58 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-03  9:47   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03 15:19   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03 20:34     ` Francois Romieu
2007-04-04 11:21     ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-04 13:20       ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-05  6:20         ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-06 18:19         ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-06 18:27           ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-17 12:36           ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-04-04 13:53       ` Denys
2007-04-04 17:34         ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-03 20:57 ` Francois Romieu
2007-04-04 13:12   ` Christian Kujau
2007-04-04 18:10     ` Francois Romieu
2007-04-04 18:57       ` Christian Kujau

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