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On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, Vince Weaver wrote:

One more followup, if I run the benchmark a bunch of times I get this:

      4,472,401.06 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
     50,886,303.28 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
     81,737,001.44 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
          6,525.89 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
          6,522.04 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
          6,505.68 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
      4,938,855.83 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
      4,614,620.11 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
     79,679,069.41 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
    152,794,060.83 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
      3,942,429.02 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
          6,506.73 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            
     60,198,884.39 mWatts power/power-pkg/                                            

I'd believe the 6W report as a value for how much the CPU is using.  The 
others seem spurious.  I guess I should go check the Errata for this chip.

Vince