David Woolley wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: >> David Woolley wrote: > >>> >>> Such improvements are unlikely as it turns out that the subject of >>> this thread is an area where Dave Mills refuses to acknowledge a >>> problem. >> >> There is no problem unless you insist on shutting down your system >> frequently. > > So, basically, as long as you act irresponsibly with respect to use of > energy and other resources, you will have no problem. > > Powering down is often the optimum way of minimising energy usage and > maximising the time till land fill. > > To avoid temperature transients entirely, you would need top end air > condiitioning and you would have to disable power management in the > hardware, and generate make work for both the CPU and things like disk > seek mechanisms, to ensure that temperatures were constant and even.
My machines run 24x7. They don't suck THAT much power. Time to "land fill" is not a consideration. Some of my machines are ten years old! Land fill time is when the machine can no longer meet my needs. I tend to be the time limiting factor in the loop; I can only read so fast, type so fast. . . . _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
