[TEST/REVIEW] CPU accounting patches
Mike Jakubik
mikej at rogers.com
Fri Jan 27 11:59:40 PST 2006
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 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.
>
As i just mentioned, i don't know of any colo that charges for your
power usage, you pay by U's and bandwidth. Are you running a 100 node
freebsd cluster? I didn't think so. Besides, nothing is stopping you
from using powerd, just make sure you have a new chipset that has either
speedstep or powernow, otherwise its useless.
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