[33578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Forcasts, why won't anyone believe them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Tue Jan 16 23:11:31 2001
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:09:21 -0600
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <9DC8BBAD4FF100408FC7D18D1F092286039ADB@condor.mhsc.com>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:49:45PM -0800
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Once upon a time, Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com> said:
> The assumption is wrong. A server motherboard and CPU draws the same power
> regardless of what it's doing. Lap-tops and the like are different and you
Not necessarily. For example, when a server is idle, Linux "halts" the
CPU between interrupts (instead of doing a "busy wait" loop). This
significantly drops power usage and heat generated, which can also mean
lessfan power.
So, a busy Linux server generates more heat and uses more power than an
idle Linux server.
I think FreeBSD does the same; I don't know about other OSs.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
