On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Toon Moene <t...@moene.org> wrote: > BTW, the ultimate reason I asked was that it turned out that running an > ordinary quad core PC to the max doesn't come for free. > > Last month I got past year's electricity bill - it turns out that I am now > (16 hours of weather forecasting and 4 hours of GCC bootstrapping per day) > using 3200 KWh a year - to the tune of 1100 Euros.
Ouch! :-/ > So the question whether a run is useful is certainly relevant :-) Indeed :-)