On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:34:26PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :On Thursday 17 June 2004 07:33 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> It kinda sounds like ACPI has bokered the other cpus. I'm not sure > :> why one would even *want* to use ACPI to idle down Xeon's in an MP > :> system, actually :-) > : > :Power and heat savings. > : > :-- > :John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > > All well and nice, but if you want power and heat savings you don't > purchase a big honking SMP box in the first place. > Sure, but what about the larger scale. Put 100 or a 1000 of them in a room and any heat savings make a big difference to your air-conditioning and power distribution.Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 19:55:06 UTC
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