> That said, if *CPU* power consumption is a major factor, generally this >> is mostly automatic, as modern CPUs generally “race” to complete work so >> that they can enter deeper C states. However, deep C states have been >> known to be the cause of many problems in certain types of network >> appliance configurations, to the point that best practice is often to >> disable deep C states. (Again, in a data center environment, this isn’t a >> big deal.) >> > > I'm a newbie in the smartOS/illumos world. I have a FreeNAS mini (from > ixsystems) that I wanted to convert to a smartOS server for my home. It's > based on an Asrock C2750D4I motherboard with an 8-core Intel Avoton C2750 > CPU. It's a low power setup, and I thought that I would experiment with > reenabling deep C states to save even more. > > Yep. Less than 24 hours later fmd was alerting me to problems with missed > interrupts. (Wow! Fault management in illumos is amazing compared to > everything else that I have used--FreeBSD and Linux.) I reverted to the > stock configuration from SmartOS, and everything went back to normal. The > extra dollar or two a month for power is ok with me. > > Trust the experts that have responded (Keith W. and Garret D.). They > really do know what they are talking about. > > > Thanks, > John Grasty > > Hi John, I am interested in running SmartOS on a similar atom board as well. Could you please post how much power your system consumes? How many disks are you using?
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