Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-28 Thread John Long
At 05:42 PM 3/27/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:51:49PM -0700, John Long wrote: >> At 02:14 AM 3/26/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> % dmesg | grep -i smbus >> pci0: at device 31.3 (no driver attached) > >All this means is that there's a S

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread John Long
At 10:35 PM 3/26/2010, Ian Smith wrote: >On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >[ leaving the MB monitoring stuff alone for your expert attention :-] > > > > It jumped up in vcore a little there with powerd. C1E and C2E which > > > include P-states are what I am really after and I think th

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread John Long
At 02:14 AM 3/26/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:20:19AM -0700, John Long wrote: >> >Yes you're only getting p4tcc throttling as Alexander points out. You'll >> >need to get est working to get power reduction from lower frequencies, >&

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread John Long
At 01:31 AM 3/26/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: >John Long wrote: >>>Have you tried C2? Are you running the latest BIOS? And perhaps your >>>ACPI ASL may be amenable to repair, if Gigabyte ACPI is broken here? > >As I can see, your ACPI reports C3 state support. You m

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread John Long
At 09:24 PM 3/25/2010, Ian Smith wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, John Long wrote: > > At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: > > >John Long wrote: > > >>Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d > > >>E7500 on g

8.x Amd64, ATA SATA mode reporting

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
Moved from another thread >> I csupd to stable amd64 8.0 and rebuilt then noticed from dmesg that I went from SATA150 (it should be SATA300) to >> udma100 SATA. > >This is a bug/quirk of some changes in ata(4). Your drive should be >operating at full SATA speed (probably SATA300). You can brin

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
At 02:36 PM 3/24/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:37:06PM -0700, John Long wrote: >> I am trying to ascertain the viability of this motherboard w/ >> regards to getting the power function working proper and am >> constrained by the lack of mon

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: >John Long wrote: >>Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d >>E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) >>amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavier blk, fresh system. >>

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
At 07:55 PM 3/22/2010, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > >On Mon, March 22, 2010 19:57, John Long wrote: >>dmesg shows >>cpu0: on acpi0 >>est0: on cpu0 >>est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized. >>est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr

Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-22 Thread John Long
Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavier blk, fresh system. My Kill-a-watt shows 41 watts idle and when I enable powerd then it climbs to 43 watts idle. I