David L. Mills wrote:
> Evandro and others,
> 
> Now it's me that missed the point. I didn't realize you were concerned 
> about a milliwatt or two every second. My first kneejerk reaction was 

Did you mean milli-Joule?

What they are concerned about is the several 10s of watts that result if 
the machine is idle, other than ntpd and they require more than 1 second 
of idle time before doing a suspend to RAM, or the 10s or 100s of Joules 
if ntpd does longer term periodic processing at a different time from 
other applications, resulting in energy being expended to get out of 
suspend to RAM, and energy being used until the scheduler decides that 
the system is more likely not to do anything for a long time than not, 
and triggers a suspend to RAM, and finally the actual suspend to RAM 
operation.

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