Hi Satoshi, On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 21:35:43 +0000 (UTC), Satoshi Imamura wrote: > Hello Mr. Andreas Herrmann, I don't think Andreas is still reading the lm-sensors list, so I am adding him to Cc. > I'm trying to measure power consumption of AMD Opteron 6272 using fam15h_power. > Linux kernel version is 3.9.4. > Even when all cores are idle, fam15h_power shows about 85W. > However, the power consumption decreases to about 74W > when a process is executed with all cores. > > For Linux kernel 3.9.4, the patch for fam15h_power is already applied. > Moreover, "RunAvgRange" (p. 460 of BKDG for Family 15h) is > appropriately set to "0x9" as following: > > % setpci -s 00:18.5 0xe0.l > % 00372c99 > > Why is the power consumption so high (85W) when all cores are idle? > Why does it decrease when a process is executed with all cores? > I would appreciate if you could give me a advice. > > Sincerely yours, > > Satoshi _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
