Power Management (Energy Saver)

phil p

Power Management (Energy Saver)

« on: January 06, 2002, 05:50:22 AM »

Are there plans to build in power management into e-smith?

My box is used mainly as a firewall/NAT, and only occasional file sharing. Is there something that will simply spin down the hard drive after, say, 3 hours of non-use?

thanks!

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Andrew Malcolmson

Re: Power Management (Energy Saver)

« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2002, 04:22:39 PM »

I'd second this request.

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Alexander Ziemann

Re: Power Management (Energy Saver)

« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2002, 10:33:08 PM »

Hi,

i am not a member of e-smith developement team

but i have never seen any energy-saving features (besides using a low-power system e.g. with VIA Ezra CPU and such) on any server.

My most ugly administration task ever was a NT server, which had activated standby mode in bios. Network connections dropped every 3 hours - no fun at all...

have fun

Alex

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Confucius

Re: Power Management (Energy Saver)

« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2002, 04:42:35 PM »

I can't see any reason for a server that should be in any kind of standby mode. If you want any of those features you better return to a workstation instead of a server.

PowerManagement on a server is a kill to the whole concept server. A server should be up and running and offcourse SERVING the users DIRECTLY and that's impossible with power-savings.

Grtx, Harro

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Gary Parker

Re: Power Management (Energy Saver)

« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2002, 02:03:32 PM »

Another thing to bear in mind is that with all the different daemons running it's probably writing to log files every 30 seconds or so and swapping out sleeping processes, you're *never* going to see 3 minutes of disk inactivity, let alone 3 hours, on a *nix box.

Then, of course, you've got to think about squid clearing it self out every now and again, email coming in (if you're using it)....blah...blah...blah...blah...blah....

Forget it

Gary

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