on Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:36:33PM -0700, Miaoling Chiu (chiu_miaoling@yahoo.com) wrote: > > >"slow" I mean *slow*, in my case it?s a Pentium 166 *down*clocked to > >50 MHz (25 MHZ PCI-clock * 2). There is no such thing as "hardware > >acceleration" in "slow" machines... > > > >For passive cooling, right? I considered to tune my old machine too - > >K6-2-400, downclocked to 166Mhz or so, no harddisks, low-powered > >cooler where possible... would be nice for my ears. > > > >The reason here is that the box runs 24/7/365 and it?s on my > >electric-power-bill. Not to mention that I don?t need any other > >heating in winter in that room (and winter ?round here means down to > >-15 - -25 degC). > > I am also very interested in finding a way to run a PC on minimal > power. As the above folks mentioned, I want to put a server online 24 > hours and keep the box cool and keep the electric bills low. > > I understand how to do downclocking by resetting jumpers. And I could > install a LCD monitor, or just turn the monitor off when I'm away from > the machine. What I don't understand though is how to power down a > hard disk (or how to install without a hard disk). I've heard of > people running Linux off a CD, floppy, zip or a ram disk, but seems to > me like if would have to be a very minimalist system, and I don't know > how you could run a server that way. But I'm open to any suggestion > about how to cut power consumption to the bone. Any ideas? I don't > need a very powerful server, but it should be capable of running > Apache and Postfix all day - if that can be done without a hard disk, > I'd appreciate some suggestions on how to set it up. What's your definition of "PC"? There are any number of low-power systems out there. A laptop's not a bad choice, most components are designed for efficience (at a cost in speed and price). There are also systems based on chips, notably ARM, which are very-low power. The early Cobalt Cube, Netwinder (I think), and a neat toy I saw at a friend's house: a 3" aluminum cube with power, ethernet, serial, and USB taps. It can be run off a battery, otherwise uses a 12 volt power supply. The wall wart's bigger than the system. For normal ranges of economy, older Intel HW is less power-hungry than newer stuff. For storage, flash or whatever IBM's new 1-2GB disk-on-a-stick things are called. Otherwise, look at tset, xset, hdparm, and apm. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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