On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:29:32PM +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
| > I've built up several of the Supermicro SYS-5015A-EHF boxes (1U rack,
| > dual core 1.66G Atom, dual Gb Intel LAN, IPMI) with 4GB and an SSD,
| > uses less than 25w at idle and less than 30w doing a-j3 userland build
| > (according to my cheap little wattage testing device).
|
| At first I said "sweet!" but then I realized if you have to run a build for
| 24 hours you probably haven't saved any energy ;-)
Or conserve even more power, save the planet and some time and money
by using binary builds. Those get built anyway as part of the testing
and release process.
Feel free to donate all the money you saved to the project; remember
that the power it takes to host and build (and cool) a project the
size of OpenBSD is not free. And that's just electricity...
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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