Re: [opensuse] Dual / quad core

2007-09-06 Thread Patrick Kirsch
Hi, Hans Witvliet wrote: When looking at the power consumptions of the multi-core CPU's, i was wondering if it is possible to power-down one or more cores when the To answer this question: If cpu hotplug is enabled, then you find within /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/ the file 'online'. With that

Re: [opensuse] Dual / quad core

2007-09-05 Thread Clayton
In any event, peak power consumption occurs only during 100% CPU utilization (and that power consumption depends somewhat on the mix of instructions, i.e., which portions of the CPU's processing logic is active). When the CPU is idle, it's power consumption (and thus its heat output) are much

Re: [opensuse] Dual / quad core

2007-09-05 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 00:10, Clayton wrote: In any event, peak power consumption occurs only during 100% CPU utilization (and that power consumption depends somewhat on the mix of instructions, i.e., which portions of the CPU's processing logic is active). When the CPU is idle,

Re: [opensuse] Dual / quad core

2007-09-05 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 03:10, Clayton wrote: In any event, peak power consumption occurs only during 100% CPU utilization (and that power consumption depends somewhat on the mix of instructions, i.e., which portions of the CPU's processing logic is active). When the CPU is idle,

[opensuse] Dual / quad core

2007-09-04 Thread Hans Witvliet
Hi, I think i fried my system (again ;) and was considering the config for my next system. When looking at the power consumptions of the multi-core CPU's, i was wondering if it is possible to power-down one or more cores when the system load does require them... A quad core is nice, but needs