On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:31 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 10/10/2016 11:52 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 11:42 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 16:35 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
As I said, I'm happy enough with suspend for now. My aim was to reduce power consumption at night (this isn't a server that has to be on
all
the time).
I dont' think computers use that much power (least normal
workstations
anyway) to bring up or down your utility bill much, so couldn't you just leave it on as is and just shut off your monitor until your
ready
to use it again?
I used to do that up until about a year ago. Since then I think I have noticed a reduced utility bill, but of course that's not really evidence as there are other factors, including lower rates because of the drop in oil prices. This is an i7 system with an Nvidia card, an SSD, a 1TB SATA drive and 16TGB of RAM, so probably above average for home workstations in terms of power consumption. The monitor is a 23- inch HP LCD.
Well, I dunno, 16 tera gigabytes of RAM (you said 16TGB) is a hell of a lot! I've never seen a mobo that could handle that. :-) Must have the cooling system from hell in there!
If there were an easy way to measure it I would :-)
If you have a clamp-style AC ammeter, you can get a widget that you plug into your outlet and your system plugs into the widget. The widget splits the hot line out separately. You put your ammeter around that leg and measure the current. You can compute your usage using Ohm's law, e.g. if you measure 2A at 120V, that's 240 VA. If you want it in watts, your average computer has a power factor of about .8, so that'd be 240 times .8 or 192 watts (or so).
Just an idea.
Well, apparently the savings might not offset the price of the ammeter, but I suppose the advancement of knowledge always has a cost :-)
poc
Well Patrick, I was wondering if there is a website that identifies cards (chipsets) NOT supported by linux. I see for example FBSD users not finding drivers for Broadcom chipsets (perhaps only specific ones). So, to help
existing linux users and newbs, it seems that such a website would go a long way to let people know what are NOT supported, or partially supported devices. It would also helps people shopping for a new computer to avoid laptops that have unsupported chipsets.
Cheers,
JD