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: > > http://shrimp.alerce.com/m

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 underst

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 ma

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

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 use

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 da

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 we

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 fai

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 /etc/rc

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 kld