Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?
this topic is inherently redundant. if the system environment justifies
staying up, it stays up. if not, staying up is a waste of resources. can
we close this before the group is reduced to redundancy itself?
Tom Massey wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:19:00AM +0000, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
>
> > As long as your talking about servers this uptime thing is ok, but
> > when talking about workstaions it's redicolous, premature and an
> > unjustifiable waste of natural resources.
>
> <offtopicish> Is it really? Just thinking in terms of wastage of resources here.
> My understanding is that most of the electricity a workstation consumes goes
> into booting, the power consumed while running is much less than this. While
> running, most of the power seems to go to the monitor. So, I would think that
> a machine left running, with the monitor turned off when not in use (either
> through manually turning it off, or with power management etc) would actually
> be less of a drain on resources than one which is booted every day, with the
> huge drain that a boot seems to include. (Admittedly, most of my info on this
> is based on testing in the 486 era, but I don't see why it would have changed).
> </offtopicish>
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