Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-12 Thread Bruno Ducrot
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:21:50AM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: Bruno Ducrot writes: [...] What specific driver(s) were loaded actually? A devinfo might help. It looks like: p4tcc0 cpufreq0 Here's a devinfo and a dmesg:

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
George Hartzell wrote: I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of days and it uses 88

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-11 Thread Bruno Ducrot
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:49:40AM -0800, George Hartzell wrote: Peter Jeremy writes: On Wed, 2007-Jan-10 09:34:21 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). What was it doing for

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-11 Thread George Hartzell
Oliver Fromme writes: George Hartzell wrote: I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-11 Thread George Hartzell
Bruno Ducrot writes: [...] What specific driver(s) were loaded actually? A devinfo might help. It looks like: p4tcc0 cpufreq0 Here's a devinfo and a dmesg: http://shrimp.alerce.com/merlin/merlin.devinfo http://shrimp.alerce.com/merlin/merlin.dmesg I'm starting to

saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread George Hartzell
I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). Then I

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread Andrei Kolu
On Wednesday, 10. January 2007 19:34, George Hartzell wrote: I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. Any other suggestions to help economize? edit

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2007-Jan-10 09:34:21 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). What was it doing for those couple of days? If it was just sitting idle then I would expect the power consumption to be

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread George Hartzell
Peter Jeremy writes: On Wed, 2007-Jan-10 09:34:21 -0800, George Hartzell wrote: I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of days and it uses 88 watts (3.90KWH/44.01H). What was it doing for those couple of days? [...] It's a small time mail server and web

Re: saving power in a Dell Poweredge 750.

2007-01-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 10, 2007, at 9:34 AM, George Hartzell wrote: I'm setting up a Dell Poweredge 750 1U server. A friend is loaning me space in his rack and since his rack usage is limited by power I'd like to be as thrifty as possible. I hooked my kill-a-watt meter up and ran the machine for a couple of