Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs

[thockin]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:41:43AM +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> > more precisely 1/4 KW Hour / day
> > 
> > $0.01 - $0.02/day (I had to lookup the current rates)
> > 
> > they probably won't notice.
> 
> Well, wait until there's AMD based dual core x86_64 laptops out there
> (this email being written on a single core x86_64 one). I can already
> see the faces of the unhappy future owners being told "use idle=poll"
> when on battery and anyway going deaf by fan noise.

Yeah, and then multiply that cost by a few tens of thousands of servers.

idle=poll is a hack at best.
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