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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:12:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Lower power SMP boxes?
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    I've slowly been trying to trim down the power use in my machine room,
    oweing to astronomical PG&E bills :-(.  I'm using those wonderful little
    EPIA series mini-itx motherboards (purchased from idot.com) as low/medium
    performance servers.  They aren't all that fast but one will run a web
    site, pop/sendmail, and an ordb nameserver just dandy and can copy files
    over NFS at 7MBytes/s.  That covers UP systems quite well.

    But MP is another story.  At some point I would like to put together
    some SMP test boxes that don't cost the equivalent of rent on a small
    apartment in electricity use.  They don't have to be super-fast, they
    just need to be SMP.  I'm not talking about blade servers here, I'm
    talking about SMP boxes for testing purposes.

    Anyone have any ideas?

							-Matt


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