Re: [CentOS] CPU Usage when idle

2012-01-12 Thread sheraz naz
--- On Wed, 1/11/12, Warren Young wrote: From: Warren Young Subject: Re: [CentOS] CPU Usage when idle To: "CentOS mailing list" Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 8:14 PM On 1/11/2012 6:42 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > They did a great job with RHEL6 and I'm > cur

Re: [CentOS] CPU Usage when idle

2012-01-11 Thread Warren Young
On 1/11/2012 6:42 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > > They did a great job with RHEL6 and I'm > curious what was changed in order to accomplish this. It's probably the PowerTop work, primarily done to get better battery life on laptops by throttling the CPU down when it's idle: http://www.less

[CentOS] CPU Usage when idle

2012-01-11 Thread Jorge Fábregas
Hello guys, Did anyone noticed how green CentOS 6 is compared to the previous release? I've been running a couple of "CentOS 6" VMs (on our vSphere environment) for the last couple of weeks and noticed a BIG difference when it comes to CPU usage when the VM is completely idle. I would like to s