Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945909AbWANBDq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:03:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945911AbWANBDq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:03:46 -0500 Received: from teetot.devrandom.net ([66.35.250.243]:31407 "EHLO teetot.devrandom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945909AbWANBDq (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:03:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:13:33 -0800 From: thockin@hockin.org To: Andreas Steinmetz Cc: David Lang , Sven-Thorsten Dietrich , Lee Revell , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Dual core Athlons and unsynced TSCs Message-ID: <20060114011333.GA9371@hockin.org> References: <1137190698.2536.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43C848C7.1070701@domdv.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43C848C7.1070701@domdv.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 20 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/