[CentOS] Re: Cpuspeed

Mon Apr 16 16:13:18 UTC 2007
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 4/15/2007 3:47 PM:
> On 4/15/07, *Peter Arremann*
> <loony at loonybin.org
> <mailto:loony at loonybin.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Power comsumption is the whole point... Laptop or desktop doesn't
>     matter. A
>     watt saved is a watt saved. My system takes about 420W when under heavy
>     load - idle the cpus clock down - it drops to around half. At least
>     to me,
>     that's worth running a program that comes for free with your distro :-)
> 
> 
> That's what I wanted to know - thanks.
> 
And every watt not consumed by the PC is that much less heat generated into
the system, server room, or ???

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