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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Sounds good! Are you on SSD or HDD?
  
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  - irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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