On 09/04/09 11:14, Jamie Bennett wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/4/9 alan c<[email protected]>: >>> I have a machine on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my >>> pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can >>> cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but >>> my guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power, >>> obviously I turn the monitor off. >> >> You might be surprised if you check it. I have an old Dell optiplex >> desktop PC which currently functions as my firewall - running IPcop. >> I checked the power consumption and it's ~90W. I also have a viglen >> which I will use to replace the Dell, and that consumes 8W. > > I also have a viglen running rtorrent[1], rsstorrent[2], e.t.c. Its on 24/7 and > consumes around 20W. The extra 10W-12W over the standard viglen is because I > also have a 1TB usb drive connected to it. Great machines if your worried about > power consumption. > >> Cheers, >> Al. > > Regards, > Jamie. > -- > http://www.linuxuk.org > > [1] http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ > [2] http://www.linuxuk.org/rsstorrent > > > > >
Would a Viglen have enough grunt to run something like boxee (www.boxee.tv)? Boxee has rtorrent integrated, but it is mainly a media centre (a fork of xmbc I believe). I currently have it running on an old (~5 year old) PC in the living room (as a proof of concept to my wife), but would like to move to a cheap, small, quiet machine in future. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
