[ubuntu-uk] downloading slow torrents & energy consumption

[Jamie Bennett]

Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/4/9 alan c <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>:
>> I have a machine  on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my
>> pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can
>> cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but
>> my guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power,
>> obviously I turn the monitor off.
>
> You might be surprised if you check it. I have an old Dell optiplex
> desktop PC which currently functions as my firewall - running IPcop.
> I checked the power consumption and it's ~90W. I also have a viglen
> which I will use to replace the Dell, and that consumes 8W.

I also have a viglen running rtorrent[1], rsstorrent[2], e.t.c. Its on 24/7 and
consumes around 20W. The extra 10W-12W over the standard viglen is because I
also have a 1TB usb drive connected to it. Great machines if your worried about
power consumption.

> Cheers,
> Al.

Regards,
Jamie.
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[1] http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/
[2] http://www.linuxuk.org/rsstorrent