i raised this topic of torrents and low powered green machines a while ago if anyone remembers!
2009/4/9 Daniel Drummond <dmdrummo...@gmail.com> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > alan c wrote: > > 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. > This isn't necessarily the lowest power machine - a newer chip will be > more efficient, using less power for a particular speed. I've been doing > a little research into low power computers for use as a basic home > server, and many people recommend using a laptop, or a laptop processor > for minimal power usage. For example most amd turion processors run at > 25/35 Watts, while the same speed desktop processors run at 65 Watts or > more. > > Ensuring that you have your machine to run with a variable cpu frequency > (I think this is fairly standard in modern distro) and setting it to > powersave, or ondemand will help minimise power consumption, as will > removing any non-essential hardware (sound cards, video cards - if you > can use on board video) as well as turning off monitor(if you use one at > all on a server) will help too. > > Dan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkndyc0ACgkQDLKnekIRi3aOVQCfaPP5XDUMmeHmoQ1zz8JpOVyg > tWwAnjDUoxUMH5ZgpgXSKL9oGbEN851u > =sQka > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Javad
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