[Hardware] "success"

[Jim C. Nasby]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 01:05:53PM -0600, Dan Oetting wrote:
> 
> On Oct 21, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Kris Amy wrote:
> 
> > Surely this would draw less power/result then my pc.
> >
> > I get ~8.4million keys/sec and my pc draws 320W excluding monitors 
> > (but I
> > turn them off when I'm not using them).
> >
> > That works out to be ~38watts/Mkey/sec.
> 
> You should also spin down the hard drive when measuring the power  
> draw. I've tried to convince d.net that there should be a light  
> client that gets all it's keys and logs results to a master node on  
> the LAN. I used to run clients with remote mounted disks.

That's always existed, just turn off the connect to keyserver options
and use shared buffer files. You'll need one client that talks to the
network and frequently checks for buffer file changes.

Or, run a pproxy and tell the clients not to write to disk.
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