On Friday 27 January 2006 18:30, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:03 AM -0500 1/27/06, Mike Jakubik wrote: > >Let's not forget, FreeBSD is really a server OS. Who in their right > >mind uses power saving features on a server? It sounds nice in > >theory, but doesn't work as well. > > Apparently your power and cooling bills are much lower than ours. > > We would very much love it if the computers will use only the > energy they need to get the job done. Yes, that means a big > bill when some simulation is running on a 100-node beowulf > cluster. But it also means we don't want to be paying the bill > to run that cluster at full-throttle when there's no work for > those CPU's to do. Good point - As much as I hate the marketing hype around the info-watt concepts - It would be nice to be able to track the consumptionReceived on Sat Jan 28 2006 - 14:02:44 UTC
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