[rescue] Onyx question

[Big Endian]

>On August 1, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>  Does anyone know how many kilowatt/hours a day a deskside onyx re2 with
>>  some reasonable disks draws?  The load cylce would probably be
>>  something like 4 hours a day in use, the rest idling or doing it's own
>>  processes.  How hard is it to rearrange the house keeping cron jobs to
>>  run whenever the machine is on after a certain period of time since
>>  the last run, so that I could leave the beast off most of the time.
>
>   My ChallengeDM (same chassis) with two 250MHz R4400 CPUs, 512MB of
>RAM, and a full load of 9GB and 18GB disks pulled about seven amps if
>memory serves.

The RE puts out a *LOT* of heat.  I"m sure it takes a lot of current. 
Depends on the number of RM4s.  I don't think the challenge (now an 
L) pulls that much.

daniel
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