Forgot to mention SPEC Power: http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Also jumping on this thread late.  Does anyone know of a database
> collecting this information?
>
> We have a small databased locally that we might be willing to share --
> have to ask around.  Agree it's complicated, but usually the basics
> get you pretty far.  We try Linux with (a) "idle" and (b) serving
> lighthttpd requests to saturation.  We're interested in whole-platform
> consumption, although we've broken it down to components in the
> past...
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Auke Kok <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 10/8/2010 12:58 AM, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>
>>> Auke Kok wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/03/10 10:44, Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am looking for a list with the idle power consumption of CPU's.
>>>>>
>>>>> There are many lists with the TDP, but that's something different. I
>>>>> have no problems with power-consumption when the machine is really busy,
>>>>> but I hate it when there is a big consumption when there is nothing to
>>>>> do.
>>>>
>>>> This is a bit harder to generate than TDP etc. Do you want the power
>>>> consumption of your CPU *package*? Or just one core? Or even a thread?
>>>> Or do you want wall-equivalent power? What's Idle? Accounting for C4/5/6
>>>> deep C-states?
>>>>
>>>> etc...
>>>
>>> (I did not get this message by mail, but I saw it in the archive.)
>>>
>>> What I do now is to measure the powerconsumption of a CPU inclusive
>>> mainbord, power-supply, memory and disk.
>>>
>>> I realise that it would be better if I would have the consumption of the
>>> CPU package alone. But I would need also information then about the
>>> mainboard.
>>>
>>> With "idle" I mean a state without workload, but where everything is
>>> functional.
>>>
>>> I understand it is not easy to find a good way, but I think you also
>>> understand it is important to have this kind of information.
>>>
>>> Maybe it would be good to measure a "reaction time" in the idle state
>>> too. E.g. of a webserver.
>>
>> that information is actually relatively easy to retrieve since every C-state
>> has a specific "exit latency" which is known (the scheduler uses this to
>> decide which C-state to enter for instance). So, C-state statistics can be
>> used to calculate average return-from-idle latency trivially...
>>
>> Auke
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> stephen dawson-haggerty
> http://cs.berkeley.edu/~stevedh
> uc berkeley wireless and embedded systems lab
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http://cs.berkeley.edu/~stevedh
uc berkeley wireless and embedded systems lab
berkeley, ca 94720
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