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Power efficiency (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago by jobbies@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm wondering what folks do to optimise the power efficiency of their Linux servers. I've never really got to the bottom of what is the best way to do this and with the current energy crisis its a pertinent topic.

I'm talking about home servers, so the availability requirements are not the same as in a corporate environment. There might be vast chunks of time during the day or night when they sit idle, and home users are more tolerant of a lag when accessing resources if it means lower energy bills.

Specifically I've been thinking about:

allowing lower power states when idle
spinning-down hdd's when they're not in use
MAYBE letting machines sleep/hibernate
setting schedules of times where you know demand will be low/zero and efficiency can be managed aggressively
any other quick wins I've missed

It would be amazing if there was one tool or one guide that helps with all of that but thats never the case, is it 😅

Thoughts?

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[–] autriyo@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Do you have any idea what your hardware is actually pulling from the outlet? Maybe it's not that bad after all?

Mine is pulling around 55W from the wall in its "normal" state. Meaning two 3.5" HDDs spun up, and a bunch of light services running. Which is squarely in "not great, not terrible" territory.

Apart from flipping the power saver switch on the mainboard I haven't done anything to save power. I haven't checked if that's doing anything either. It's a 3rd gen core i5 iirc, which isn't great at idle power consumption, so maybe that switch is doing something...

I also haven't had any luck with getting the drives to spin down reliably anyways, and afaik it's better for them to just stay spinning so I haven't bothered much to change that.

[–] Buck@jlai.lu 6 points 4 months ago

Just as a reference, my NUC with 40+ containers, runs at around 3-4 W, not counting the 2,5" 5400 rpm HDD attached.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Logging power use by my server was one of the motivators to add homeassistant. That also showed me that specific containers use a (relative) ton of background power. Immich and authentik each raised power consumption by 2-3 watts, so I leave them down unless I have specific need.