Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2014, Steven Stern sent: > Anyhow, the front display shows the power drawn by the stuff plugged > into it, currently computer and monitor. Typically, they're drawing > about 60-65 watts. Running Yum and updating SELinux policies increased > the power draw to 95 watts! Yes, continual intensive computing will use more power than a computer that spends a great deal of its time idling (watch the output from the "top" command, most things aren't doing a lot of work, most of the time). Yum is one those things that will start doing a task, and then spend a lot of time working on it. Installs had a reputation of cooking some computers, way back in the dim and distant past. Because the computer, for a change, was doing a lot of actual computing, for a very prolonged period. Most basic home desktop tasks don't really do a lot of computing, they spend a lot of time waiting for the user to do something. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
