Re: Kernel thoughts of a Linux user

Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-18T21:20:59Z

>> So they could make themselves a favor and run something like seti@home.
>
>That does consume more energy than just sitting at idle. I've seen some
>estimates of how much it costs to run seti 24/7 rather than just sit idle, and
>the price was something like $80/year.

For CPUs which don't have some sort of speedstep, it does not matter.
(Please correct me if I am wrong. It might be that HLT cycles are still more
power-conservative even without speedstep than 24/7 on the FPU.)

Jan Engelhardt
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