Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery
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100W while idling seems like way too much?
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FYI - the cluster is pulling 115-140 watts.
- 1x Mac mini 2014, running OMV as a dedicated NAS (i5-4308U, 16GB RAM)
- 4-bay Sabrent DS-SC4B, attached to Mac mini (3x 4TB WD Reds in RAID5, 1x 4TB WD Black as hot spare)
- 1x 8TB WD backup drive (it's something)
- 2x HP Elitedesk 800 G3 mini (or G4, don't remember), both running Proxmox (i7-7700T, 32GB RAM each)
- 1x Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running Proxmox (i7-7700, 32GB RAM)
All running multiple VMs (Docker and other) and LXC containers.
I'm impressed, honestly. I was expecting 200+ watts minimum. It'll be interesting to see the spikes as it's used over time.
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I'm surprised! Seems like it should be more, but I haven't done any wattage calculations in a while, so maybe power efficiency really has gotten that much better.
Do you know if the drives were spun up or down at the time? I know idle vs. active makes a difference, but if they were spun down entirely, that's kind of cheating.
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I watched it as it booted, didn't pull much more than 150 watts. But it'll be interesting to see how it goes over time.
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what kind of driver could the keyboard be using? lsmod shows nothing beyond the HID driver, but thats baing used by the external mouse which works normally after sleep.
lshw shows it going by /dev/input/event6 or something like it?
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Spaces before a full stop? Really?
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You got a pro managing it?
\sigh
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Could be internal to kernel? Try updating
/etc/default/grubto include:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash atkbd.reset"and runsudo update-grub. This will cause a full keyboard reset on resume.If you have not run BIOS updates, that could be it, too.
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ok it worked! thanks a lot! can't believe it was that easy.
do you happen to know a thing or two about diagnosing trackpad issues?
it only seem to work with windows, and all its features are only working with the correct drivers on windows 7.. i got nowhere when i tried messing with it a couple years ago.
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I'm sorry my corrections to all your many errors are bothering you.
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Glad that worked out for you
What is Gnome doing exactly?What kind of issues, and which trackpad driver?
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i was about to send a screenshot, but i can't reproduce it now. it freezes and stops responding to some input, and all the dock+appmenu icons are gone. i can update if it happens again.
I'm using the same generic ps2 driver for the touchpad. its an alps glidepoint, works perfect on windows but i can only get its basic features to work on windows 7 with the proper drivers, needless to say thats a bit unworkable.
on linux it works initially with multitouch and everything, then starts to miss clicks or click when it isnt supposed to, then starts moving erratically and becomes unusable. it behaves similar to a wet touchscreen. ive tried different kernel versions, livebooted a couple different distros and tried a few very old solutions i found floating around, including another driver.
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Is this a Thinkpad? And of so, is the BIOS s3 on "Linux" or "Windows and Linux"?
Also are you running Wayland? If so ot might be worth trying to log in with Xorg instead (bottom right when logging in).
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I also learned that PC's draw a lot of power lol. I used to sit on my PC all day, now I know how much it cost. Even the monitor turning off splits the power draw by half.
My state has a green energy initiative that gives us free home energy audits, mostly it means we get a lot of free led lights. But it also got us these nice automated power strips, you plug one item (the pc) into a control socket, and when that device turns off, it cuts power to the other managed sockets (monitors, speakers, etc). A really simple solution that must save a bunch of power.
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Chest freezers are very efficient. Ours is usually full, so it stays nice and cold unless you leave it unplugged for like a week straight.
I am curious to see what the PC's power usage looks like when I switch to Linux...
