On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 11:19:00AM +0000, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > As long as your talking about servers this uptime thing is ok, but > when talking about workstaions it's redicolous, premature and an > unjustifiable waste of natural resources.
<offtopicish> Is it really? Just thinking in terms of wastage of resources here. My understanding is that most of the electricity a workstation consumes goes into booting, the power consumed while running is much less than this. While running, most of the power seems to go to the monitor. So, I would think that a machine left running, with the monitor turned off when not in use (either through manually turning it off, or with power management etc) would actually be less of a drain on resources than one which is booted every day, with the huge drain that a boot seems to include. (Admittedly, most of my info on this is based on testing in the 486 era, but I don't see why it would have changed). </offtopicish>
