Just a note since I have metered power outlets and have been
investigating power aspects for a long time. I have NOT been able to
measure any advantage in power consumption using the granola userspace
governor rather than Ubuntu's on-demand kernel governor. Furthermore,
Granola is closed source... we don't really know what goes on inside
the software.

What does save power though is to use a modern scaling CPU (>= Core
II) and under-clock it, use laptop drives and preferable SSD and
unless you really need GFX, go with something embedded. Also, many
PSU's waste about ~30% of the energy during the induction step but you
can get high-efficient ones which only waste ~10%.

Last but not least, unplug the PC + misc. when going to bed. My home-
office setup will happily draw about 40W while doing absolutely
nothing than producing heat.

/Casper

On Aug 3, 6:30 pm, Dick Wall <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's called Granola:
>
> http://grano.la/
>
> and despite what we said on the podcast, there are both Linux and
> Windows versions available, not just Linux.
>
> Dick
>
> On Aug 3, 9:18 am, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I didn't quite get the name of the power saving utility Dick talked about.
> > Alas, it's not in the show notes either.
>
> > Can somebody point me the right web site ? Thanks !
>
> > Jan

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