Star Tune Your Linux-Based Server for Power Efficiency
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 18:28 UTC
Linux Part 1 introduces the components and concepts you'll need to tune your system for power efficiency. Part 2 compares the five in-kernel governors: performance, powersave, userspace, ondemand, and conservative. Part 3 show you what results you can achieve by power tuning your system.
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Sheevaplug
by FunkyELF on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 19:43 UTC
FunkyELF
Member since:
2006-07-26

My fileserver is a sheevaplug.
Think its like 5 Watts.
I just need to figure out what keeps making my hard drive go.
I hear it clicking away when nothing on the network should be using it.

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RE: Sheevaplug
by Lennie on Wed 4th Nov 2009 02:08 in reply to "Sheevaplug"
Lennie Member since:
2007-09-22

maybe iwatch will help ?

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RE: Sheevaplug
by g0nad on Wed 4th Nov 2009 06:47 in reply to "Sheevaplug"
g0nad Member since:
2009-02-22

you may like to check out hdparm or sdparm.

I'm in the odd situation where I want my drive to always be spinning when it's mounted and when unmounted I want it to spin down - I think I've got it doing it but the light on the drive stays on when it's supposed to be down (but physically I can't feel vibration). Just that minor detail of the light being on drives me up the wall. The drive is a USB 1TB Seagate)

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