From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel thoughts of a Linux user
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:29:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <419D1443.9080807@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0411182216160.16465@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> For CPUs which don't have some sort of speedstep, it does not matter.
> (Please correct me if I am wrong. It might be that HLT cycles are still more
> power-conservative even without speedstep than 24/7 on the FPU.)
Actually, it does matter. Transistors that aren't being used don't consume
power. So if you just sit spinning on hlt, you don't use a lot of the chip, and
you use less power. This is why overclockers will test their cooling solutions
while running the cpu at full throttle with various stress tests.
Aside from the cpu itself, when idling you also don't consume memory bus cycles,
you never hit the network, you don't use the disk, etc., etc. It all adds up.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-18 17:59 Kernel thoughts of a Linux user Gerold J. Wucherpfennig
2004-11-18 18:50 ` Greg KH
2004-11-18 20:00 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-18 20:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-18 20:52 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-18 21:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-18 21:15 ` Chris Friesen
2004-11-18 21:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-18 21:29 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2004-11-19 12:02 ` Paulo Marques
2004-11-19 12:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-20 2:14 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-22 8:07 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-22 8:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-24 10:23 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-22 11:17 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-24 10:20 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-24 11:31 ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-11-28 19:10 ` Helge Hafting
2004-11-19 5:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-11-20 10:31 Gerold J. Wucherpfennig
2004-11-21 18:29 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 21:33 ` Gerold J. Wucherpfennig
2004-11-22 18:40 ` Greg KH
2004-11-22 18:52 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-11-22 9:54 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-22 14:54 Adam J. Richter
2004-11-22 20:21 ` Maneesh Soni
2004-11-22 15:32 Adam J. Richter
2004-12-14 18:02 Jan Engelhardt
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