[rescue] E3000's

Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Tue Aug 5 08:15:24 CDT 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:38:41PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > It will be interesting to hear what it takes.  I figured that running a
> > modest Onyx full down in this part of the country would cost about $65 a
> > month.
> 
> Everything I've heard about E3x00 systems seems to indicate that they
> take even less power than E450s.  If so, that's quite a modest amount of
> power for such a nice machine.
> 
> We need a unit of measurement for stuff like that.  Something like watts
> per (MIPS * weighted-clocks-per-instruction).

I thought all that we cared about was wether we could afford the watts,
not the watts to CPU performance unit.



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