Bootup breakdown

Posted Sep 25, 2003 17:31 UTC (Thu) by wookey (guest, #5501)
In reply to: Bootup breakdown by ue
Parent article: Boot Linux faster (IBM developerWorks)

This is not a solution for the case where a machine is only used from time to time. It's a terrible waste to leave a machine powered up all the time just because starting it up is slow. A box using 100W (most PCs are probably more than that) costs about GBP 40/year to run continuously. My home box probably gets used about 2hrs/week - that's about GBP 0.60/year, so 'leave it turned on because the booting is slow' amounts to 98.5% energy wastage. Thats not good enough. Faster booting and/or lower power machines is important to a reasonable chunk of the population.