Dave Stephens wrote:
The main problem I see with using temperature is that the ability to
detect CPU temp. is a feature limited to "more modern" machines. It
has become very common even in desktops now a days, but it wouldn't be
available in legacy hardware or custom hardware.
Just a thought.
Well, round-robin startup would at least be better than always using one
process to start all processes. That would go some of the way towards
improving asymmetric heating. (Says me, whose knowledge of kernel
scheduling could be written on the face of a chip and still leave room
for footnotes...)
David
On 6/1/05, Erich Dollansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
The last, but hardly used parameter, is the CPU temperature. I noticed
that FreeBSD tends to use always the same CPU to start a task. This
makes one CPU real hot while the other stays cool. Taking the CPU
temperature into account for starting at least new threads would also
have an advantage of systems with an less then ideal cooling system.
Spreading tasks all over the system with the coolest CPU being the one
to be started next will make systems a bit cooler.
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