On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 23:16, Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I found some more comments and some documentation to word-smith very > lightly, and pushed.
Thanks > The comments were stray references to the > trigger file. It's > a little confusing because the remaining mechanism also uses a file, > but it uses a signal first so seems better to refer to promotion > requests rather than files. ..and again > /me wonders how many idle servers there are in the world My estimate is there are 100 million servers in use worldwide, with only about 1% of them on a continuously busy duty cycle and most of them not in the cloud. If we guess that we save 10W when idle, then that saves some proportion of a GW. It's not a huge contribution to the effort, but if by doing this we inspire others to do the same, we may yet make a difference. -- Simon Riggs http://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
