Tuesday, December 20th, 2022

Some POWER too
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Jirka  illustrated  in his  phlog  post [1] that  he has  no problems
torturing  his  POWER9 desktop  to the max  from  time to time. Well,
I made it look like mine  has been doing nothing in my last post [2],
but that isn't entirely true.

My machine has twice the computing power of his,  as it has an 8C/32T
CPU and 64 GB of RAM.  Even when I installed four systems in QEMU-KVM
virtualization in parallel [3] or ran five different systems emulated
[4], it was barely visible in the CPU load meter.

But then  I edited videos  in kdenlive, rendered  the result to H265,
turned  on the parallel processing,  and voila!  full load  the whole
night. I even had  to manually turn on fans  on the case that are off
most  of the time because  powertop  reported a consumption  of 496 W
and the CPU soon reached 70 degrees centigrade.

I just don't  do stuff like  this very often. If I did,  I'd consider
buying  some generic PC box for it,  because my POWER9 darling is too
precious to be bothered by such things.

[1] gopher://sdf.org/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2022_12_06.txt
[2] gopher://i-logout.cz/0/phlog/posts/2022-12-06_the_best_four_chocolates_of_my_life.txt
[3] gopher://i-logout.cz/I/screenshots/files/Blackbird_Void_IceWM-2022_11_06.png
[4] gopher://i-logout.cz/I/screenshots/files/Blackbird_Void_IceWM-2022_10_24.png

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