Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Just for comparison, http://blog.spida.net/index.php?/archives/3-Powerusage.html has some measurements of a low-power system. That's not even optimal. My King Young w/ 1.6GHz Celeron, 500 MB RAM, and Intel 855 graphics uses just 30-35W at 100% CPU. And it's silent! ralf P.S. see e.g. http://www.mini-itx.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
* Jeff Horelick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Linux is] writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. There is the Laptop-Mode for that. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. Just for comparison, http://blog.spida.net/index.php?/archives/3-Powerusage.html has some measurements of a low-power system. Timo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) Well, I've forgotten to mention that I didn't substract all peripheral devices. My new calculations (idle, nothing but the big black box under my desk): Linux 137W, Win 114W (20% or 18EUR / 20$ p.a.). It seems I can't disable my onboard WLAN completely and while Win deactivates it because I don't provide drivers, Linux gives it some power although no software is accessing it. By the way: Maximum output while testing with 3DMark 2006: 219W. I wonder why I had to buy a 400W power supply... pgpVdPen78Nu9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) Well, I've forgotten to mention that I didn't substract all peripheral devices. My new calculations (idle, nothing but the big black box under my desk): Linux 137W, Win 114W (20% or 18EUR / 20$ p.a.). It seems I can't disable my onboard WLAN completely and while Win deactivates it because I don't provide drivers, Linux gives it some power although no software is accessing it. By the way: Maximum output while testing with 3DMark 2006: 219W. I wonder why I had to buy a 400W power supply... Maybe you can power off the wlan with a wireless-utils program, or maybe by unloading the kernel module? Have you set up power management, powersave frequency governors? Have you set up your disk(s) to idle quickly? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) Well, I've forgotten to mention that I didn't substract all peripheral devices. My new calculations (idle, nothing but the big black box under my desk): Linux 137W, Win 114W (20% or 18EUR / 20$ p.a.). It seems I can't disable my onboard WLAN completely and while Win deactivates it because I don't provide drivers, Linux gives it some power although no software is accessing it. By the way: Maximum output while testing with 3DMark 2006: 219W. I wonder why I had to buy a 400W power supply... Maybe you can power off the wlan with a wireless-utils program, or maybe by unloading the kernel module? Have you set up power management, powersave frequency governors? Have you set up your disk(s) to idle quickly? There is no kernel module. I'll play around with modules, configs and tools later. It's not urgent, it was more like a mystery that I wanted to solve. Yes, powermanagement (aka PowerNow!) is activated. No, my disks do not spin down and should not because of the attrition (I hope that's the right word) that comes with spinning up. Anyway, thanks for your input, guys! pgpCMn6FxAsnd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) Well, I've forgotten to mention that I didn't substract all peripheral devices. My new calculations (idle, nothing but the big black box under my desk): Linux 137W, Win 114W (20% or 18EUR / 20$ p.a.). It seems I can't disable my onboard WLAN completely and while Win deactivates it because I don't provide drivers, Linux gives it some power although no software is accessing it. By the way: Maximum output while testing with 3DMark 2006: 219W. I wonder why I had to buy a 400W power supply... Maybe you can power off the wlan with a wireless-utils program, or maybe by unloading the kernel module? Have you set up power management, powersave frequency governors? Have you set up your disk(s) to idle quickly? There is no kernel module. I'll play around with modules, configs and tools later. It's not urgent, it was more like a mystery that I wanted to solve. Yes, powermanagement (aka PowerNow!) is activated. No, my disks do not spin down and should not because of the attrition (I hope that's the right word) that comes with spinning up. [somewhat OT]: Please read this: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf The damage done to hard drives in spinup/spindown is in the same category of juju as ricer cflags and cloud seeding. Drive activity and such is *not* an indicator of failure, while there may be some mechanical stress on the disk, but it's not going to cause your drive to fail noticeably earlier. Spin them down, save the power, and don't listen to fearmongers.[/OT] -- Ryan W Sims -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? Try this: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/powertop.php Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number: 09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:06 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) Well, I've forgotten to mention that I didn't substract all peripheral devices. My new calculations (idle, nothing but the big black box under my desk): Linux 137W, Win 114W (20% or 18EUR / 20$ p.a.). It seems I can't disable my onboard WLAN completely and while Win deactivates it because I don't provide drivers, Linux gives it some power although no software is accessing it. By the way: Maximum output while testing with 3DMark 2006: 219W. I wonder why I had to buy a 400W power supply... Maybe you can power off the wlan with a wireless-utils program, or maybe by unloading the kernel module? Have you set up power management, powersave frequency governors? Have you set up your disk(s) to idle quickly? There is no kernel module. I'll play around with modules, configs and tools later. It's not urgent, it was more like a mystery that I wanted to solve. Yes, powermanagement (aka PowerNow!) is activated. No, my disks do not spin down and should not because of the attrition (I hope that's the right word) that comes with spinning up. [somewhat OT]: Please read this: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf The damage done to hard drives in spinup/spindown is in the same category of juju as ricer cflags and cloud seeding. Drive activity and such is *not* an indicator of failure, while there may be some mechanical stress on the disk, but it's not going to cause your drive to fail noticeably earlier. Spin them down, save the power, and don't listen to fearmongers.[/OT] -- Ryan W Sims Thanks! I've known that this report exists but have newer actually seen it myself. I'm still a bit reluctant because I don't suspect that HDDs in Google's server farm spind down as often as mine would. Well, I'll just close my eyes and hope for the best when I hear my darlings shutting down. ;) pgp6URyCtinBX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
I've known that this report exists but have newer actually seen it myself. I'm still a bit reluctant because I don't suspect that HDDs in Google's server farm spind down as often as mine would. Well, I'll just close my eyes and hope for the best when I hear my darlings shutting down. ;) Argh, never, not newer. That's a typo that even I should have found... pgpRdPM8RDSSs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:19 schrieb Elias Probst: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? Try this: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/powertop.php Regards, Elias P. Nice software, will be handy in the future. Thanks again! However, it seems I'll have to wait until sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.21 is marked stable for AMD64. pgpYbFATdaoDw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:37:19 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:06 schrieb Ryan Sims: On 6/3/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 18:03 schrieb Dan Farrell: On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:16:33 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag 02 Juni 2007 20:03 schrieb Jeff Horelick: Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) Well, I've forgotten to mention that I didn't substract all peripheral devices. My new calculations (idle, nothing but the big black box under my desk): Linux 137W, Win 114W (20% or 18EUR / 20$ p.a.). It seems I can't disable my onboard WLAN completely and while Win deactivates it because I don't provide drivers, Linux gives it some power although no software is accessing it. By the way: Maximum output while testing with 3DMark 2006: 219W. I wonder why I had to buy a 400W power supply... Maybe you can power off the wlan with a wireless-utils program, or maybe by unloading the kernel module? Have you set up power management, powersave frequency governors? Have you set up your disk(s) to idle quickly? There is no kernel module. I'll play around with modules, configs and tools later. It's not urgent, it was more like a mystery that I wanted to solve. Yes, powermanagement (aka PowerNow!) is activated. No, my disks do not spin down and should not because of the attrition (I hope that's the right word) that comes with spinning up. [somewhat OT]: Please read this: http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf The damage done to hard drives in spinup/spindown is in the same category of juju as ricer cflags and cloud seeding. Drive activity and such is *not* an indicator of failure, while there may be some mechanical stress on the disk, but it's not going to cause your drive to fail noticeably earlier. Spin them down, save the power, and don't listen to fearmongers.[/OT] -- Ryan W Sims Thanks! I've known that this report exists but have newer actually seen it myself. I'm still a bit reluctant because I don't suspect that HDDs in Google's server farm spind down as often as mine would. Well, I'll just close my eyes and hope for the best when I hear my darlings shutting down. ;) In my experience, a drive is quite a lot more likely to last a long time when you _do_ spin it down regularly. The only drive I ever killed before its time, was set to _not_ spin down accidentally, and was in a tiny slimline case, and by the time i got back from work and realized something was wrong, the outside surface of the drive was hot enough to cook eggs on (or so i'd guess). Now I make sure my drives are set to spin down after a few minutes. Don't think this is gonna save much for power though. I actually thought that's what you were referring to with 'attrition;' that is, it takes just as much power to spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes. Thanks for the report, I found it very interesting. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 19:46:15 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag 03 Juni 2007 19:19 schrieb Elias Probst: On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:55:22 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? Try this: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/powertop.php Regards, Elias P. Nice software, will be handy in the future. Thanks again! However, it seems I'll have to wait until sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.21 is marked stable for AMD64. is it ~amd64? If you want it badly enough, I bet it's worth a try! Hardly anything gets into ~arch unless it's almost ready to go. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI) processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 75 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy bogomips: 2011.55 TLB size: 1024 4K pages clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 75 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 512 KB physical id : 0 siblings: 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm cr8_legacy bogomips: 2011.55 TLB size: 1024 4K pages clflush size: 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:08.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:09.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:09.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2) 00:09.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:0a.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1) 00:0a.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:0c.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1) 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0d.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0d.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2) 00:10.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:11.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950 Pro (Primary) (PCIE) 02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon X1950 Pro (Secondary) (PCIE) 03:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) 03:07.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04) 03:07.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
Re: [gentoo-user] Linux becomes expensive ;)
Florian, That's not that big of a difference...Also, Gentoo/Linux does not have powersaving for every device like Windows XP...it's writing to the hard drive more often and it doesn't spin as much down when it's not in use to help performance. Also, if i was you, i'd be worried about your system using that LITTLE energy especially since you have a pretty hefty CPU, video card, motherboard, 2 hardrives and al the rest of your components. On 6/2/07, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys! I've just tested the energy consumption of my PC. Aparently Gentoo consumes a quiet a bit more than Windows XP: 213 W compared to 188 W PowerNow is activated and works on both cores (tested). The same hardware is plugged in and works. I'll attach the output of lspci, lsmod and cpuinfo as well as my world-file just in case it's related to some software. Is there anything I've forgotten? Where does my energy go? A short overview of my hardware: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ EE Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (WLAN should be deactivated) 2048 MB DDR2 Corsair SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS ATI Radeon 1950 Pro (fglrx) 2 SATA2 HDDs 1 SATA1 DVD-RAM Floppy USB mouse, keyboard and printer TFT screen (connected via DVI)
