Am Freitag, 2. November 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > > But I do believe that the kernel pings > > > between 800 MHz and turbo mode not for nothing. > > > > > > > > I have no idea what point you're making here. > > "ondemand" scheduler tends to do it by give-me-everything-you-got or > the- least-you-can-provide. > > As I experience the Linux kernel is using that turbo mode quite a lot. > So something has to benefit from it. How noticable it is? I think it > can be noticable with fast SSD and lots of RAM. > > Thus I do think that it potentially gives the following benefits: > > 1) faster execution / lower latency on peak loads > > 2) less power consumption due to longer sleep periods. > > > And thus I say, that I better use a dual core CPU with higher peak > performance for typical desktop workloads, than a quad core CPU with > lower peak performance. A quad core CPU with as high peak performance > might be in order if something compiles software a lot.
peak performance per core that is obviously. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211021318.11451.mar...@lichtvoll.de
