Ow ! It was meant as an honest question ! No sarcasm intended. I'm certainly not pretending granula does a better job. I'm just interested how one measures power consumption. Hence my question.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:18, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Lately the topic objective vs. subjective and micro-benchmarks became > rather muddy territory and it seems like you are trying to push me out > there. What I can tell you is what I did to reach the conclusion based > on MY typical usage pattern. > > I recorded the KWh over a period 3 hours from the outlet and made sure > I did the same kind of conservative work (NetBeans, Chrome + a few > other things). The meter is standards approved and rated at 1% > accuracy, or +/- 0.75W considering the system draws around 75W. There > was no real difference to observe, the two numbers came very close to > one another. > > That setup is good enough for me to assert that it does nothing for > me. If you have another demand/usage that differs from mine you might > come to another conclusion, however considering my CPU already runs at > the lowest possible stepping, in hindsight I am not sure which other > conclusion I might actually get to. It's not like applications can > just magically underclock or undervoltate the hardware. > > Can you objectively theorize how Granula would work to achieve it's > goal better than a kernel level ondemand driver? > > /Casper > > On Aug 4, 2:34 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > > So you can objectively measure whether granula make it consume less/more > > power ? > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 14:22, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Fortunately my Ubuntu incl login is up in about a minute - so no more > > > > real need to have it running when not in use. > > > > > Oh you should see Ubuntu on an Intel SSD then, boots in just a few > > > secs after initial power-on and self-test. Also it uses just 0.14W > > > during load and 0.06W when idling. ;) > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "The Java Posse" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups .com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
