Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:19:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, drony@spray.se, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HLT Message-ID: <200011012119.eA1LJI433523@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2000 13:39:46 EST." <p04330109b62613318f98@[128.113.24.47]>
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> At 5:48 AM +0000 10/31/00, Terry Lambert wrote:
> >I think the real question is why, under normal operating
> >conditions, should overheating be a problem for you?
>
> While that is a good question, there's another question
> that comes to my mind. If my dual-processor system will
> have close-to-nothing to do all night while I'm out of
> the office, then why should I have both CPU's running
> at full-bore? What is the advantage of burning up the
> extra electricity and generating the extra heat, when
> there's going to be nothing to do for several hours?
It's not that there's no advantage; until ACPI is working properly there
is no *alternative*.
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