Does offlining a CPU save power? For example, if I do something like this on a Core i7 CPU - will it save any power?
echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu4/online echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu5/online echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/online echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/online Say, I have a PC which needs to be turned on all the time, but is mostly idle at night. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
