There is an article here published today, and it does not even allow responses.
Reading this article, there is nothing new in it, nothing really concerning to the subject title, no differenciation, just advertisement propaganda.
It is exactly the kind of article that chatGPT could have written as well, because it only collects information that is widely available on the web, and rewords it to match the question asked.
So after reading the article, one is frustrated that nothing new came out of it. But now, concerning to the topic: I was always motivated to reduce the power consumption of my machines as far as feasible, because for a lot of time they're just idling along, and then it is of no use having them run fully engaged. I am not at all interested in eco-dogmatism and such, I would not buy some new and "eco friendly" stuff because I love my old crap, but I focus on power savings because it is technically possible, it doesn't cost anything and it makes sense to me.
But, I found myself widely alone in that field. The only thing of concern regarding power savings seems to be the battery capacity of laptops, but nothing concerning stationary systems. And usually when I buy a used mainboard, I find all the CMOS settings tuned to maximum performance, i.e. maximum power consumption.
What is worse, I even get laughed at and repelled. For instance, postgresql has the habit to read the database disk every five minutes, even when there is no activity on the database. The explanation is that the developers need to make sure the user hasn't accidentially swapped the disk.
When I asked if this feature could be turned off, because it effectively makes the disks never spin down (e.g. for databases that are not used during nighttime), I got briskly rejected with the argument that it is obvious how to decide between the safety of the users and some disks to spindown.
Apparently those guys are not at all interested in saving the rainforest (or probably they are, and they also consider that only a matter of politically correct newspeak wording, and no practical consequence).
And we have another example, right here, right now. Two days ago I reported a bug, because
Then, when it became apparent that tbe bug is caused by my energy saving configuration and wouldn't appear otherwise, interest ceased and there is no further reaction as of now. (bug #270340)
Reading this article, there is nothing new in it, nothing really concerning to the subject title, no differenciation, just advertisement propaganda.
It is exactly the kind of article that chatGPT could have written as well, because it only collects information that is widely available on the web, and rewords it to match the question asked.
So after reading the article, one is frustrated that nothing new came out of it. But now, concerning to the topic: I was always motivated to reduce the power consumption of my machines as far as feasible, because for a lot of time they're just idling along, and then it is of no use having them run fully engaged. I am not at all interested in eco-dogmatism and such, I would not buy some new and "eco friendly" stuff because I love my old crap, but I focus on power savings because it is technically possible, it doesn't cost anything and it makes sense to me.
But, I found myself widely alone in that field. The only thing of concern regarding power savings seems to be the battery capacity of laptops, but nothing concerning stationary systems. And usually when I buy a used mainboard, I find all the CMOS settings tuned to maximum performance, i.e. maximum power consumption.
What is worse, I even get laughed at and repelled. For instance, postgresql has the habit to read the database disk every five minutes, even when there is no activity on the database. The explanation is that the developers need to make sure the user hasn't accidentially swapped the disk.
When I asked if this feature could be turned off, because it effectively makes the disks never spin down (e.g. for databases that are not used during nighttime), I got briskly rejected with the argument that it is obvious how to decide between the safety of the users and some disks to spindown.
Apparently those guys are not at all interested in saving the rainforest (or probably they are, and they also consider that only a matter of politically correct newspeak wording, and no practical consequence).
And we have another example, right here, right now. Two days ago I reported a bug, because
zpool import
did repeatedly fail and not return on my machine. There was surprisingly fast reaction: within a few hours there were three or four parties suggesting how to acquire more details.Then, when it became apparent that tbe bug is caused by my energy saving configuration and wouldn't appear otherwise, interest ceased and there is no further reaction as of now. (bug #270340)