From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 1 19:34:38 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D7A1065673 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 19:34:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-313.bluehost.com (cpoproxy3-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.54.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8174D8FC08 for ; Sat, 1 May 2010 19:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28653 invoked by uid 0); 1 May 2010 19:34:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by cpoproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 1 May 2010 19:34:38 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=MSemJYcR+7w0I2W1iRaxd9HtSClud4tMwTYY9w8eiiDd7sKop7j3h4DBXDwBdEk5SpDsiMUT4f5xvSSqjj1CRBbI34cpuizP1QtCo7G2RhJnumNlDNlu3hiX13YFo67s; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O8ISS-0003bG-AZ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 May 2010 13:34:37 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 01 May 2010 12:32:49 -0600 Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 12:32:49 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100501183249.GA93804@guilt.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20100501015705.GA46858@thought.org> <20100501041913.81a34394.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100501030350.GB46985@thought.org> <20100501052055.9def3399.freebsd@edvax.de> <4BDC09A8.4030405@onetel.com> <20100501155543.f909c863.freebsd@edvax.de> <4BDC6BCC.1@pdconsec.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BDC6BCC.1@pdconsec.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: ziz a dumb question? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 May 2010 19:34:38 -0000 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 03:58:36AM +1000, David Rawling wrote: >=20 > Servers tend to be worse - I have a matched pair of Acer servers with=20 > single 3GHz P4 class Xeons, 2GB of RAM, 3 x 7200rpm disks and dual NICs.= =20 > Those systems pull 220W and they're the next ones I'm ditching for=20 > something that uses less power! =2E . . and they still draw significantly less power than an LCD television plus DVR, even if you add in the power draw of an LCD monitor. If you're really concerned about power consumption, make sure that you look for the "bottleneck", just as you would when trying to get better performance out of your computer or your network. Even if your computer is drawing a whole lot of power, you might be better off replacing your television and DVR unit with a computer than replacing the computer with another computer that draws less power. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkvcc9EACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKVbCgCfaI1O9mieawnwBsn121wiCQAS UK8AnA1hb/FfG2BxGdzGXjZEnmrLsqme =0zvY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--