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Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures (Network World)

Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures (Network World)

Posted Jun 10, 2008 12:56 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
In reply to: Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures (Network World) by ringerc
Parent article: Linux captures the 'green' flag, beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures (Network World)

I would have to somewhat disagree with some of your points.  The server sits there drawing
power regardless of raw performance.  So, unless it can't keep up with its workload, it would
make sense to run the CPU slower if that would result in an overall energy savings.


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