On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Paul Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Brown wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 08:52:13AM -0700, Urivan Saaib wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Don't know how many people does this but I turn off both sets of
> > > entertainment systems every night (disconnect the power strip). I
> haven't
> > > see any major fluctuation on my SDGE bill since Dec when I contracted
> the
> > > U-Verse service.
> > >
> >
> > Something like the "Watts Up" or equivalent is real handy for this. This
> > is how I concluded that running Folding at Home continuously on the PS3
> > would cost me about $25 a month.
>
> Ouch! So, it's running 100% cpu most or all of the time?
Well, yes. Folding at Home is a CPU-intensive program, with very
minimal I/O. It receives a task from the central system, and crunches
on it until it has a result, then communicates back. I would guess
that the I/O is on the order of a few kilobytes per month.
carl
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