Hi all,<br><br>In the Philippine deployments, the local decision makers have tried to buy locally, and the machines use roughly 80 watts, idling, bursting to 120 during startup.<br><br>The inadequate power situation causes rolling brown outs and load shedding. I've been unable to document the decrease in performance they might encounter if they shifted their usage to a dual core Atom 30 watt MSI or a 10 watt fitpc. Selling the idea of deep cycle batteries for school servers, would be a lot easier if we didn't need so much power drain!<br>
<br>For lack of anything better, I started asking them to time the startup time until the school server presented a logon prompt. Yet, I also noticed that if network interfaces were down, or if there was no wan connectivity, there would be timeouts which would add noise to such an approach.<br>
<br>As I have understood what I've read, the ejabberd service is currently the performance bottleneck. I don't have much familiarity with cpu test suites. Does anyone have a suggestion on benchmark programs that would be useful in predicting actual performance in the schools? If no one has experience in the area, I can do the googling and reading. Sometimes it makes sense to ask first.<br>
<br>Thanks<br>George<br>