Hi Jean, Thank you very much for your cooperation. Regards, Satoshi -- Satoshi Imamura Visiting Researcher School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University of Belfast Email: s.imamura@xxxxxxxxx On Jul 18, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
