Hi all, In the Philippine deployments, the local decision makers have tried to buy locally, and the machines use roughly 80 watts, idling, bursting to 120 during startup.
The inadequate power situation causes rolling brown outs and load shedding. I've been unable to document the decrease in performance they might encounter if they shifted their usage to a dual core Atom 30 watt MSI or a 10 watt fitpc. Selling the idea of deep cycle batteries for school servers, would be a lot easier if we didn't need so much power drain! For lack of anything better, I started asking them to time the startup time until the school server presented a logon prompt. Yet, I also noticed that if network interfaces were down, or if there was no wan connectivity, there would be timeouts which would add noise to such an approach. As I have understood what I've read, the ejabberd service is currently the performance bottleneck. I don't have much familiarity with cpu test suites. Does anyone have a suggestion on benchmark programs that would be useful in predicting actual performance in the schools? If no one has experience in the area, I can do the googling and reading. Sometimes it makes sense to ask first. Thanks George
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