Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:17:10 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
cc: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel thoughts of a Linux user
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>> 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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