doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- I (sort of) noticed a while back some marketing gumph that suggested > that Ubuntu servers can be configured to reduce power consumption when they > are not under heavy load, and was wondering if something similar was > available (generally, I mean, not *just* for Ubuntu) for domestic use. > The obvious case that springs to mind is when I have a long download going & > want to leave my PC on overnight. > (Currently, I generally don't, as I feel bad about the energy I'm wasting.) > So would it be possible to leave a download going & in some way put the rest > of your computer to sleep to save on power? > Is there anything that does that?
I have a machine on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but my guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power, obviously I turn the monitor off. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
