Hi Phil, Am Freitag, den 18.11.2011, 11:11 -0800 schrieb Phil Pokorny: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Lucas Stach <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use the fam15h_power driver to measure my processors power > > consumption, but it gives me clearly wrong values. With a completely > > idle system the processor claims to be using 125261718µW, which would > > mean the processor operates at it's TDP limit. With all cores 100% > > loaded it claims to be using 130675781µW which I can't believe as this > > would mean the processor violates it's own spec. > > You have to read the vendor documentation carefully... > > TDP numbers are *not* necessarily the maximum power draw. They are > the *design* point for a thermal solution. I appreciate your answer but his is *not* the point here. The point is the fam15h_power driver is claiming the processor is useing a totally unbelievable 125W while idle, while physical measurements have shown that fam15h processors do not use more than a few (below 10) Watts in this state. Also the processor itself claims to have an upper TDP limit of 124.77W (as shown by fam15h_power), so no measurement should ever exceed this. > > Further confusion is created by Intel and AMD using similar terms to > refer to different concepts. > > Phil P. > _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
