Fun observation after installing a new UPS

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2014, Steven Stern sent:
> Anyhow, the front display shows the power drawn by the stuff plugged
> into it, currently computer and monitor.  Typically, they're drawing
> about 60-65 watts. Running Yum and updating SELinux policies increased
> the power draw to 95 watts! 

Yes, continual intensive computing will use more power than a computer
that spends a great deal of its time idling (watch the output from the
"top" command, most things aren't doing a lot of work, most of the
time).  Yum is one those things that will start doing a task, and then
spend a lot of time working on it.

Installs had a reputation of cooking some computers, way back in the dim
and distant past.  Because the computer, for a change, was doing a lot
of actual computing, for a very prolonged period.

Most basic home desktop tasks don't really do a lot of computing, they
spend a lot of time waiting for the user to do something.


-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.