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I finally installed my wife

Man…technology has come a long way.

Nothing here to write home about. A couple of minor tweaks to the network, and blocking even more unnecessary traffic. I’ve been on a mission to reduce costs in consumables such as electricity. I have a cron that shuts everything down at a certain time in the evening, and am working on a WOL routine fired by a cron from my stand alone pfsense box, to the server, to crank it back up in the morning just before I get up. It seemed to be the lowest hanging fruit so I have it on priority. It just didn’t make sense to run the server for 10 - 12 hours on idle I don’t have any midnight mass downloads of Linux iso’s nor do I make services available to other users so, it seemed to be a good place to start. I guess, by purist’s standards, it’s not a server anymore but an intermittent service, but it seems to be working for me. Will check consumption totals at the end of the month.

Other than that, I haven’t added anything new to the lineup, and I am just enjoying the benefits.

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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If you want to go all in, get some plug that measures the energy! Also let’s you directly see the effects of turning stuff on/off. My last server went up 3W when I started using the second network interface! Let drives go to sleep, play with C-States, etc

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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I had a post a while back about what I was doing to cut costs.
  
  TLP: Adjusts CPU frequency scaling, PCI‑e ASPM, SATA link power‑management
  
  Powertop: Used to profile power consumption and has a tune feature sudo powertop --auto-tune
  
  cpufrequtils: Used to manage the CPU governor directly
  
  logind.conf: Can be used to put the whole server to sleep when idle
  
  After doing all of that, which does help out during operational hours, I decided to save 10-12 hours of consumption by just shutting it down. The old ‘turn the light out if you’re not in the room’ concept. Right now I am manually booting the server, and it doesn’t take that long to resume operations. However, why not employ some automation and magic packets to fire it back up in the morning.
  
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  - tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Sounds good! Are you on SSD or HDD?
    
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    irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The OS lives on an SSD and I have two aux drives. One is HDD, but it is a samba share for Navidrome, so it’s not like it’s spinning constandly. Everything gets a 3,2,1 backup.
    
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