Here's my take on it... It costs very little.
My older machines have generally got smaller than a 200 watt power supply in them. That power supply would be capable of running them along with several CDRoms, and HDDS all spinning at the same time. My IPcop box has 1 hdd, and isn't overly used except for caching (which COULD be turned off). I would be quite suprised if that system was using more than 50 watts, which is a pretty dim light bulb. My server is a Celeron ~800, with 2 hdds. But it's newer, and more inteligent power wise. If you want to see more efficiency, I'd consolidate your servers. Depending on how you use them, this may be an opportunity to use the User Mode Linux stuff. ( http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/uml.xml ) Most people have WAY too much power in their servers for what they actually need. I run us (at work) on a P3 xeon 733 with 2 Gigs of RAM, and it rarely works at all. I'm sure that if I shut down Jabber, I'd have a utilization of less than .01% Jabber seems to be a pig. At home, I'd be surprised if the server was using 125 watts. Obviously, that will go up when I compile or something, but averaged over time, I can't see the two of them using 200 watts. Does that add up to something? Probably. But not much. Maybe $10 a month, maybe? I swapped out our 12 most used light bulbs for compact florescent ones, and saw a $20/month savings. There are easier and better places to save money, generally. Windows and doors rank high on that list. I found that florescent bulbs to rank VERY high on that list, and frankly, I really like the fact that they don't really seem to be florescent. They last forever, and they're really easy to change to. Best of all, they don't flicker like the ones most larger buildings have in their ceilings. That would be a deal breaker for me, personally. Kev. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
