[arachne] Re: CPU sleep test result

  • From: Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:32:08 -0500 (CDT)

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When I was going to community college for computer science
and electronics, in both computer hardware class and digital
electronics class, they taught us that frequently turning a
computer on and off was very hard on them. The capacitors and
transistors take a hit from the power surge everytime it gets
turned on, and wear from the heating and cooling. Also the
harddrive is especially hit as it swells and shrinks from the
heating up and cooling down, which is also hard on the magnetic
data points, this can also lead to possible data corruption.
They also stressed though that leaving them on continually will
waste a lot of power, especially in big companies with lots of
nodes. They had done considerable research on this. I think the
best thing to do is find a balance between each individual one's
use and nonuse of their particular computer usage.
Rob

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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:


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Before you "hoo haw" leaving a computer turned on, perhaps one should do a bit of 
research into the additional wear & tear on the CPU, GPU etc. That occurs with powering 
up/down cycles!

Wiz
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 10/11/2009 6:30 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: CPU sleep test result

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On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:47:02 -0400 (EDT), Sam Ewalt wrote:



Very old school, Glenn. While it certainly couldn't hurt to unplug
there is the convenience factor. My computer is on all the time, even
at night when I'm sleeping. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night
and feel the urge to look something up or check my email. I might wander
over to the computer at any time.


Egad! My DOS computer can boot up in less than 20 seconds and is ready
to run Arachne. The slowest thing about wanting to get email is logging
on to the net which takes 30-45 seconds.

I can understand why people want to leave their Windoze computers
permanently turned on, whether in sleep mode or otherwise. My #2
computer running XP-Pro with a 1.6GHz processor takes 40 seconds before
it askes for the log-on password, then another 2-3 minutes before all
the start-up tests are done and it is ready to do anything for me.

But I still shut it down and switch it off when I'm not using it. The
master switch on the wall feeds a power board that supplies the
computer, the monitor, the printer, the external speakers, and the
modem. Total power drain with the computer shut down but power still on
to everything is about 40 watts.


But most of the time it's not only turned on, but it's running Firefox
and connected via DSL. It's waiting for me.


And waiting for anyone with the right hooks to invade it - although I
must agree that FF is a lot less susceptible that IE.



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