Hmmm. I will try to answer all which did answer to my question. I am not sure about how much a PC is burning, but I will try to illustrate the situation:
I live in a 2 rooms appartment. Am married and no kids. The heating was also a shock, but in my city the heating costs are pretty high and I think I can solve that by installing some auto thermal regulation. The shocking part was the electricity bill. In one year according to the readings I burnt about 7791 Kwh!!! Cooking stove, fridge, waterheating for bathroom and kitchen, TV, and dishwashing machine (mini version) run on electricity. But I don't think we cook/wash/bathe/etc more than any regular family. The lightbulbs are these funky fluorescent things which burn very little electricity (13W) and give lots of light. The only thing which a normal/average family doesn't have are 3 PCs (1 server + 1 for me + 1 for my wife) which run 24/7. So that is why the idea that the PCs might be the prob. I called the supplier and he offered to let me borrow a special tool which allows you to measure the power consumption of electrical appliances and see which is the trouble maker (in case there is only one). The supplier was shocked too and said that my readings could be called "usual" only if I would have a family of 8 living in my appartment.:/ I think I will do it, but in the meantime with such an invoice I wanted to try to diminish whatever I can and thus also the PCs uptime. Am not sure if I am depressed or shocked. It is the beginning of the month and am already on minus with my bank account as result as the yearly invoice for the differences between payments and burnt KWh. :( So any suggestion, beside putting a hampster run, to diminish the energy consumption, would be welcome. I know this is slightly offtopic, but am almost pulling my hairs here... It would be more of a slashdot.org subject, but you guys always come up with cool ideas. :) Anyway, the solar voltaic cell sounds as a neat idea. How does that work, how much would such thing cost, how big it is, how much power can it give and how about nights? About the nights I suppose there are 2 main options: 1. charge some sort of battery in the day in the same time with the usage 2. make some sort of installation that would switch to socket electricity as soon as the power from the solar cell isn't enough anymore. Both of the above ideas sound cool, but have no clue whatsoever how to do it either way. Any suggestions would be appreciated. For the time being I decided to switch to a different calculation mode for the electricity from my provider which is normally used for firms, so that my invoice level would sink. :/ Best regards, Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: "lorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:42 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Enabling Power management under Mandrake 9.1 > On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:04 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Am back again with a small prob. :) After I saw the electricity invoice and > > recovered from the heart attack:) I decided I might want to stop keeping my > > server/firewall online all the time. I only have a small server and is > > mostly experimental and only for a few friends which mostly sleep at night. > > :) On the other hand, having to connect to it, shut it down and then having > > to wait till it starts when I need it again might not be something I want > > to do each day. :) So the last solution that crosses my mind is to make it > > go into standby. The problem is that I want it to go in standby when no > > activity from it is required. No activity would mean no incoming requests > > from the clients inside the network. Is it possible to make my Mandrake 9.1 > > server go into standby only when no network traffic for like 15 minutes or > > so. On the other hand, will it wake up from standby if incoming network > > traffic or do I have to move mouse/ hit any key on keyboard? When in > > standby mode, will it drop the adsl connection or will it remain online? > > How much (aproximately in percents) does the power need sink when in > > standby mode? Thx in advance for your help. > > > I think with the new motherboards that incoming modem rings will turn power > on, mouse movement, keyboard strokes, but I don't recall nic traffic with the > exception of wol frames. Because traffic is always coming through, it would > always be awake no? > > I'm very curious, is electricity that expensive where you are? It appears you > are across the big pond. Would a solar voltaic cell and battery be out of the > question to keep it running? Most only burn about 150watts to run just the > computer. ? > > > Best regards, > > Adrian > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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