Nire Bryce

@NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/14/2023, 6:15 PM

I wish I could have two processors for my desktop PC, and instead of going into sleep mode, it shifts into low-power server mode.

idle on a desktop cpu is pretty high still as far as I can tell, and random desktop apps make it keep spiking, I basically want "suspend desktop and switch to a lower power cpu, but still keep remote services active and let me ssh to it"

edit: efficiency cores are cool but as far as i can tell there's no way to clamp it to them, and also no easy way to flip off all the background applications I only need when the desktop environment is up.

i guess i could script that but it doesn't solve the "spikes let it use the less efficient core to keep up, instead of forcing the service to calm down"

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liffy 💜@lifning9/14/2023, 6:22 PM

i wonder if we'll see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE in desktops as the industry gradually drifts ARMwards from x86

Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/14/2023, 6:25 PM

I thought the issue there is that, especially on Linux, half the stuff you're running doesn't know about them. like, i can't have it dynamically throttle spiky loads.

but maybe I'm wrong there

liffy 💜@lifning9/14/2023, 6:40 PM

I've used at least one such Linux machine (the Gemini PDA phone) that exposed levers in sysfs for which of the CPUs were enabled. it was also a little unorthodox of a setup though because it also would change the system's view of how many CPUs there were, and the way it dynamically turned them on/off by default meant that at any given point in time you opened htop you'd get some random number of CPUs you could actually see based on what was enabled at the time you invoked it

Dr Cassandra Granade @cgranade9/14/2023, 6:22 PM

Samsung's little.BIG platform did that for phones for a while. Trouble was, so far as I understand, it sucked in practice due to poor software support. I'm with you, though, I'd love to see that done and done well.

(edit: liffy beat me to it by 0.19 beats, and was more accurate besides; sorry for the hassle)

Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/14/2023, 6:25 PM

efficiency cores don't work when you're running things that don't know about them, as far as i know

and it's fine, not hassle except on your part

mint @mintexists9/14/2023, 6:27 PM

i wonder if you could do this poorly by attaching some sort of sata vampire to the storage drive, and booting up a mini server pc (raspi-like) off of that drive (or just using the drive for data). Could work if docker containers are used and auto-started from a compose file?

Nire Bryce @NireBryce9/14/2023, 6:28 PM

yeah but (unstated in OP) I'm gonna need the graphics card sometimes

mint @mintexists9/14/2023, 6:49 PM

Oh true true hm. Pcie vampire switch thing too?

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