mortslim;427035 Wrote: > I think it depends on the server. Once you go 24/7, the new netbooks > don't radically increase consumption by running a background program. But it's not really a "background program" - these things are specifically designed to take 100% cpu when the machine is otherwise idle (which for a typical file server is almost all the time). It does of course depend very much on your machine, something like an Atom has a max usage of around 4W so a 50% change is largely irrelevant. A faster processor however could have a much bigger range - mine is running on an Athlon LE-1640 which has a max usage of 45W, compared with an idle usage closer to 10W - the difference there is obviously much greater. My guess is that more people are running SC on old P4 boxes (which use huge amounts of power) than Atoms, so the difference could be quite significant.
Add to that the fact that you're running the thing at max temps which may cause interesting issues depending on how good your cooling is (as well as increasing noise). I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from contributing if they want to, just making sure people are aware that it's not "free" computing power, it costs you some extra amount of money and it costs the environment some extra amount of carbon emissions, even if your machine is normally on 24/7 like mine. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=63681 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
