From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852661384C0 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3AC18142C4; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:50:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35448142BA for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:50:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWKnd-0007Lr-2s for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 08:50:45 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:50:44 +0100 Message-ID: <8551914.hU4FhT7smn@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201508301826.50580.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20150830040443.GA1081@ca.inter.net> <55E337C9.7030001@gmail.com> <201508301826.50580.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 069a63c5-dfa0-4387-9678-a6b86a83b33d X-Archives-Hash: c8968f098d210774d64849d193489abf On Sunday 30 August 2015 18:26:49 Mick wrote: > Modern appliances with Green stickers on them (whatever they're called) are > more efficient by design. To some extent this is also true with PCs. I > still have an old Pentium 4 32bit running a couple of test environments and > back up storage. I can assure you that the room gets hot after it has been > running for a couple of hours! :-) The desktop machine I'm referring to (an Amari "workstation") dates from 2009. It has an i5 processor, 16GB RAM* and two 2GB SSDs as the main power sinks. It sits (runs) in a boxroom 6ft square and keeps it comfortably warm. I haven't noticed any change in ambient temp since the SSDs replaced spinners. * Whoever named that Random Access had a strange understanding of English. The last thing I want from memory is random access! How much better it would have been to call it something like Direct Access. Oh well - much too late now. -- Rgds Peter