On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 11:26 -0700, Les wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 06:56 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > potential accesses. > > Hi, Wolfgang, > 1. Power factor is the correct term. Due to transmission line > effects the current leads the voltage, and that error produces the > heating effect that varies with directly with speed and line length. > I am a test specialist for integrated circuits. I do use my terms > correctly. Uh, isn't "transmission line effect" (common name) really called "inductive reactance"? Capacitive reactance has the opposite effect (voltage leads current). It's been a while since I was in EE school. > 2. All ram moves are block moves with recent processors. This is due > to the management of cache memory which may be two levels deep on > current microprocessors. > > 3. I believe I did state that hardware was a significant cause of > power demand. I was illustrating the need for additional headroom on > the supply to deal with the surges that occur during electronics data > state changes. > > No one here needs to believe any of this, because in most cases the > participants will order prebuilt systems which will have properly > sized supplies to deal with the board demands. Generally the > designers build and test the systems with memory demands that are much > greater than as you point out the average demand may be. > > The gentleman here is building a high end system. 4 processors > (two CPU's) is a lot of processing power. Thus it is reasonable to > expect that the system may be running at high capacity, thus more > block moves and greater throughput demands on the hardware. > > Regards, > Les H > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Consciousness: that annoying time between naps. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
