Re: [SAGE] Greener Machine Rooms: Cooling?

[Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>]

At 9:53 AM -0800 11/2/06, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:

>  This is probably stating the obvious, but reducing consumption is
>  the best thing you can do.  I've heard reports from one person
>  that enabling cpufreq on all their Linux systems cut their
>  electricity bill by 40%.

However, if you have any timing-sensitive programs, make sure that 
you *don't* run them on CPUs with variable speed clocks.  Changing 
the clock speed of the CPU will absolutely kill your ability to keep 
a good stable time reference.

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