Re: [gpm] Sorry new to the list and can't find it in the archives.....does GPM detect processor load before initiating?

[Ivan Stepaniuk <ivan albafotonica com>]

On 05/10/2010 07:08 PM, Another Sillyname wrote:
> I have GPM working on a couple of machines however as far as I can
> tell there's no way for GPM to detect processor load before it decides
> to put the machines to sleep.
>
> The machines in question will be running batch jobs that can take
> between 30 minutes and 4-5 hours to complete, the jobs are 'sent' to
> them from a server and when they've finished them they can go back to
> sleep till given the next job.  When the jobs are running they put the
> cores up to about 75% processor load.
>    
AFAIK gpm does not consider system load, however in such specific setup 
you have, I would personally avoid gpm at all.

It seems that you could just suspend from within your batch process, 
then use WOL to wake them up again before a new batch is sent. I don't 
see how gpm is going to help you in your case whatsoever. You can just 
initiate a suspend to RAM  from a script like the following example

# echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state

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Iván Stepaniuk
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