Hibernatning RAM

[Jose Celestino]

Words by John McCabe-Dansted [Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:35:40AM +0900]:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Jose Celestino <japc at co.sapo.pt> wrote:
> >  Wouldn't you save more power if you use your memory as cache (for
> >  filesystem, for instance) than simply shutting it down (even if that's
> >  possible, i don't know)?
> 
> According to this:
>   http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/30/the_power_saving_guide/page6.html
> a pair of DIMMs required 8 watts, while spinning up a harddisk took
> 8-9 watts. YMMV, but it seems plausible that shutting down the memory
> would save power, even if the cache was moderately effective.
> 

Oh, that's a helluva lot. I see the point.

-- 
Jose Celestino
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