Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:42:02PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I'll see if I can find a very high resolution photo of your motherboard > and try to work out if any ASICs are used for H/W monitoring (these days > such chips also often provide Super I/O support (floppy, LPT, COM, > LPC/ISA, etc.)

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:16:27AM -0700, John Long wrote: > At 05:42 PM 3/27/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > put this in > # Intel Core/Core2Duo CPU temperature monitoring driver > device coretemp coretemp(4) will get you the temperatures of each processor core, provided via the dev.cpu.X.tempe

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 SMBus-class device sitting on the

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 Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:51:49PM -0700, John Long wrote: > At 02:14 AM 3/26/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >I'm willing to make an exception here. If you can get the following > >information from the motherboard manufacturer, I'd be willing to add > >support for your board to bsdhwmon. What I n

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, >> >which likely won't correspond to the

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread John R. Long
At 03:16 AM 3/25/2010, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:04:51 -0700 >John Long wrote: > >> I want to thank you very much for all the info you have provided. It has >> clued me into a much better understanding and I see that it is a big >> un-standard thing to monitor these functio

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Smith
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 that the > > bios by itself provides those chang

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 may try it also. >Here is my no

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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, > >which likely won't correspond to these f/8 step throttling frequencies. > > > >As Jerem

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Motin
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 may try it also. Here is my notes about power and C3 also: http://wiki.freebsd.org/

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 gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generi

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
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 gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) > >>amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavi

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-25 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:04:51 -0700 John Long wrote: > I want to thank you very much for all the info you have provided. It has > clued me into a much better understanding and I see that it is a big > un-standard thing to monitor these functions. It seems that things are FYI: for (some) Asus b

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:04:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of John Long, and lo! it spake thus: > >> The i3/i5/i7 chips don't appear to offer ECC framework on their >> memory controllers (which are now on-die as I'm sure you know), >> which is why I plan to stay away from them for servers. > > I ag

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 monitoring tools vs what cupid.com

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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 monitoring tools vs what cupid.com has > for win with hwmonitor and cpuz (they have a

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. >>My Kill-a-watt shows 41

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 6160b2506000b25 >>device_attach:

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-22 Thread Alexander Motin
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. >My Kill-a-watt shows 41 watts idle and when I enable powerd then it >cli

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-22 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
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 6160b2506000b25 >device_attach: est0 attach returned 6 >p4tcc0: on cpu0 >cp

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