[Gllug] Is this a silly idea?

[Peter Grandi]

>>> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:53:27 +0100, John Winters
>>> <john at sinodun.org.uk> said:

john> [ ... ] I envisage two boxes - one a fairly powerful
john> server which is actually switched off most of the time.
john> The second a very low power unit (probably a disk-less,
john> 500 MHz Mini-ITX also functioning as firewall and print
john> server) which wakes up the main box using Wake On Lan
john> when needed. [ ... ]

Perhaps some more reading on what Wake-On-LAN means and what is
typical power consumption looks like in the various power saving
modes (standby/suspend/sleep/soft power off/...) might be useful
here. :-)

However, the main message to convey is that on _recent_ systems
suitably chosen (e.g. with desktop CPUs that support frequency
scaling), low power modes are low power enough, if the system is
carefully configured, that Wake-On-LAN is not really an issue.

You might want to have a look at the extensive power management
discussion related to ''laptop mode'':

  http://WWW.XS4All.NL/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/

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