Peter Jeremy writes: > On Wed, 2007-Jan-10 09:34:21 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: > >I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of > >days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). > > What was it doing for those couple of days? [...]
It's a small time mail server and web host. It was running under its real world load. > I presume you confirmed that cpufreq/powerd was actually functioning > (ie the CPU frequency was being changed). Yep, or at least I confirmed that powerd -v from a shell cycled up and down w/ demand, then I configured it to run as a daemon and confirmed that was cpufreq was loaded and that powerd was running in the background. > >That surprised me a bit, and seems to suggest that it's spending most > >of its energy spinning fans or something. > > PSU overheads, fans, northbridge, video, RAM, disk, ... it all adds up. That's sort of what I was figuring, it is/was just that my laptop experience with powerd and battery life suggested that there would be more of a difference. > I can't specifically help with the Dell. Thanks for the thoughts! g. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
