Re: OT: Energy efficiency difference btw GNU/Linux, Mac & MS
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On 07/10/08 12:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> ISTM that regardless of who's software is more efficient, arguably the
> best method is thin clients, from an energy perspecitve. This is based
> on the assumption that you will have a few 24/7 machines anyway. And
> that points, at least in my mind, a little bit towards OSS because of
> the inexpensive virtualization options. A few physical machines
> running at nearly full capacity seems to me to be more energy
> efficient than a bunch of machines running at lower loads.
>
> But that is all idle speculation around the water cooler.
Second that. There's no hard drive to spin up every 5 minutes, the
monitor will of course be configured to power off after N number of
minutes of inactivity, and similarly the CPU can be configured to go
into deep slowdown mode during inactive times.
Thus, after-hours, all the clients will be sipping power.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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