Re: Disabling CPUs

On 7 October 2022 2:05:32 pm AEDT, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

 > I've been silent while waiting for the additional memory since I
 > could not
 > do any real work with only 8G. It finally arrived and I installed it
 > yesterday. I'm very happy to say that my VirtualBox VMs seem to now
 > be
 > working correctly. I've done limited testing, but seen no problems to
 > this
 > point. Much better than an instant system panic when a VM finished
 > loading.
 > 
 > On the plus side, with "cpuset -s 1 -l 0-3", things seem reasonably
 > stable.
 > That means no crashes with many hours of use and a lot of
 > compilations.
 > With only 4 cores, it's not a fast as I had hoped, but I will be
 > benchmarking soon.

Hi Kevin, three questions if I may:

I may have missed it, but did you wind up testing sched_ULE vs 4BSD?

Is that 4 cores including HT, or not?

And how much power does your new Thinkpad T16 use on battery, say, at idle and 'fairly busy' (acpiconf -i0) ?

cheers, Ian