[ale] OT: Calculating PC power consumption

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 29 14:36:39 EDT 2005


John Wells wrote:

>Gentlemen,
>
>On my home DSL, I have roughly four boxes running at any give time: a
>firewall/router, a DNS server, a web server, and a wireless VPN router.
>
>I'd like to get a rough idea of how much these servers (particularly the
>web server and dns server) cost me in $$ from power consumption on a
>monthly basis.  I can't imagine it's overwhelming, but it'd still be nice
>to know.
>
>Anyone tried doing this before?
>
>Thanks,
>John
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We would need to know the power consumption of the machines or at least 
the configuration of the machines.

Calvin...



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