On Wed 2007-12-26 12:43:56, H. Peter Anvin wrote:Oliver Neukum wrote:Am Mittwoch, 26. Dezember 2007 19:56:59 schrieb H. Peter Anvin:A lot of them should. An inordinate amount of machines sit there burning power for no reason. You can argue that S3 isn't needed -- that nohz + C3/C4 + turning off the screen would be enough, and that might beHow many machines care a lot about saving power while they are connected3) Network card that is either downThis is the big crux I see. You're going to constantly wake up the machine due to broadcast packets, and spend a lot of power just going in and out of S3.
or can wake up system on any packet (and not loose too many packets)
to an ethernet? Wlan might be more of a problem.
+ legit.
NOHZ + C4 + turn off screen + turn off disk + turn off SATA is still
~8W on thinkpad x60.
S3 is ~1W.
That's quite significant difference.
(But yes, connected-to-ethernet is not most important use scenario.)
Pavel