[geeks] This Litle Green Monster...

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Jan 23 08:44:30 CST 2004


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:37:56AM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:56:45 +0100
> Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I measured the power consumption of my Litle Green Monster [1]
> > yesterday. 347 watts true RMS.
> > Howly SGI cow. This is only a workstation, no big, bad, evil server 
> > machine loaded with dozens of disks.
> > 
> > [1] Octane single R12k 300 MHz, 2 GB RAM, SSE + SE dual head GFX, PCI 
> > card cage + PCI FDDI NIC, 1 x 9 GB + 2 x 18 GB IBM UW SCSI disks.
> 
> I've got a similar setup.  My G5 and the Octane can't coexist on the
> same UPS without tripping it into overload.  I need to buy a second one
> to dedicate to the Octane....

My Octane won't trip it's UPS, but it's UPS won't keep it running when
the power drops for even 5 seconds.  I keep forgetting to remove it from
the UPS altogether when it is powered down.

I need a new UPS, but there hasn't been money for it.



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