On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:05 -0800, David Lang wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 [email protected] wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:18:35PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> >> Lee, the last time I saw this discussion I thought it was identified that
> >> the multiple cores (or IIRC the multiple chips in a SMP motherboard) would
> >> only get out of sync when power management calls were made (hlt or
> >> switching the c-state). IIRC the workaround that was posted then was to
> >> just disable these in the kernel build.
> >
> > not using 'hlt' when idling means that you spend 10s of Watts more power
> > on mostly idle systems.
>
> true, but for people who need better time accruacy then the other
> workaround this may be very acceptable.
>
1/4 KW / day for time synchronisation.
The power company would love that.
> David Lang
>
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