Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-28 Thread John Long
At 05:42 PM 3/27/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:51:49PM -0700, John Long wrote: At 02:14 AM 3/26/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: % dmesg | grep -i smbus pci0: serial bus, SMBus at device 31.3 (no driver attached) All this means is that there's a SMBus-class device

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:16:27AM -0700, John Long wrote: At 05:42 PM 3/27/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: put this in # Intel Core/Core2Duo CPU temperature monitoring driver device coretemp coretemp(4) will get you the temperatures of each processor core, provided via the

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-28 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:42:02PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'll see if I can find a very high resolution photo of your motherboard and try to work out if any ASICs are used for H/W monitoring (these days such chips also often provide Super I/O support (floppy, LPT, COM, LPC/ISA, etc.)).

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread John R. Long
At 03:16 AM 3/25/2010, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:04:51 -0700 John Long fb...@sstec.com wrote: I want to thank you very much for all the info you have provided. It has clued me into a much better understanding and I see that it is a big un-standard thing to monitor these

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread John Long
At 02:14 AM 3/26/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:20:19AM -0700, John Long wrote: Yes you're only getting p4tcc throttling as Alexander points out. You'll need to get est working to get power reduction from lower frequencies, which likely won't correspond to these f/8

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 04:51:49PM -0700, John Long wrote: At 02:14 AM 3/26/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I'm willing to make an exception here. If you can get the following information from the motherboard manufacturer, I'd be willing to add support for your board to bsdhwmon. What I need:

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-27 Thread John Long
At 10:35 PM 3/26/2010, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [ leaving the MB monitoring stuff alone for your expert attention :-] It jumped up in vcore a little there with powerd. C1E and C2E which include P-states are what I am really after and I think that the

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread John Long
At 09:24 PM 3/25/2010, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, John Long wrote: At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: John Long wrote: Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far)

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Alexander Motin
John Long wrote: Have you tried C2? Are you running the latest BIOS? And perhaps your ACPI ASL may be amenable to repair, if Gigabyte ACPI is broken here? As I can see, your ACPI reports C3 state support. You may try it also. Here is my notes about power and C3 also:

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:20:19AM -0700, John Long wrote: Yes you're only getting p4tcc throttling as Alexander points out. You'll need to get est working to get power reduction from lower frequencies, which likely won't correspond to these f/8 step throttling frequencies. As Jeremy

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread John Long
At 01:31 AM 3/26/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: John Long wrote: Have you tried C2? Are you running the latest BIOS? And perhaps your ACPI ASL may be amenable to repair, if Gigabyte ACPI is broken here? As I can see, your ACPI reports C3 state support. You may try it also. Here is my notes about

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [ leaving the MB monitoring stuff alone for your expert attention :-] It jumped up in vcore a little there with powerd. C1E and C2E which include P-states are what I am really after and I think that the bios by itself provides those changes

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-25 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:04:51 -0700 John Long fb...@sstec.com wrote: I want to thank you very much for all the info you have provided. It has clued me into a much better understanding and I see that it is a big un-standard thing to monitor these functions. It seems that things are FYI: for

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, John Long wrote: At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: John Long wrote: Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavier blk,

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
At 07:55 PM 3/22/2010, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: On Mon, March 22, 2010 19:57, John Long wrote: dmesg shows cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 est0: Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control on cpu0 est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized. est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
At 11:27 PM 3/22/2010, Alexander Motin wrote: John Long wrote: Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavier blk, fresh system. My Kill-a-watt shows 41 watts

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:37:06PM -0700, John Long wrote: I am trying to ascertain the viability of this motherboard w/ regards to getting the power function working proper and am constrained by the lack of monitoring tools vs what cupid.com has for win with hwmonitor and cpuz (they have a

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread John Long
At 02:36 PM 3/24/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 01:37:06PM -0700, John Long wrote: I am trying to ascertain the viability of this motherboard w/ regards to getting the power function working proper and am constrained by the lack of monitoring tools vs what cupid.com has

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-24 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:04:51PM -0700 I heard the voice of John Long, and lo! it spake thus: The i3/i5/i7 chips don't appear to offer ECC framework on their memory controllers (which are now on-die as I'm sure you know), which is why I plan to stay away from them for servers. I agree with

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-23 Thread Alexander Motin
John Long wrote: Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavier blk, fresh system. My Kill-a-watt shows 41 watts idle and when I enable powerd then it climbs

Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-22 Thread John Long
Hello, I am putting together a couple update servers. Went with c2d E7500 on gigabyte G41M-ES2L boards. fbsd 8.0 release generic (so far) amd64, 1g mem, 1tb wd cavier blk, fresh system. My Kill-a-watt shows 41 watts idle and when I enable powerd then it climbs to 43 watts idle.

Re: Powerd and est / eist functionality

2010-03-22 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Mon, March 22, 2010 19:57, John Long wrote: dmesg shows cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 est0: Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control on cpu0 est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized. est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6160b2506000b25 device_attach: est0 attach