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If the CPU is idle it isn't wasting energy.
by andrewchambers 11y ago
If the CPU is idle it isn't wasting energy.
- mjg59 11y agoThe rest of the system is still a (roughly) fixed cost, and a 75% loaded CPU package still consumes more than 75% of the power of a 100% loaded CPU package.
- dchest 11y agoFrom the linked paper: "Resulting performance degradations are in the range 13-24% for typical Linux workloads, and reach 138× in some corner cases. Energy waste is proportional."