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Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)

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294 points AgaoAnar | 7 comments | 02 Sep 25 19:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[02 Sep 25 20:44 UTC] No.45108785[source]▶
Have you measured the power consumption of your "high power consumption" server?
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jeffbee ◴[02 Sep 25 21:05 UTC] No.45109039[source]▶
Seriously. You can get running states around 1W these days.
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1. macawfish ◴[02 Sep 25 22:17 UTC] No.45109835[source]▶
What to do about this? https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/phantom-rtx-5090-high-...
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2. jeffbee ◴[02 Sep 25 22:27 UTC] No.45109936[source]▶
I suggest not putting a ridiculous GPU in your backup server.
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3. moandcompany ◴[03 Sep 25 00:10 UTC] No.45110761[source]▶
You can use nvidia-smi to set a target maximum power draw and performance mode to bring idle power levels down. Also make sure your computer is using the server/headless mode driver to keep idle power consumption down.
4. supertrope ◴[03 Sep 25 01:31 UTC] No.45111296[source]▶
If one can afford a GPU with a MSRP of $1999 and was scalped for $2999 during the initial craze, you are probably not struggling to pay your electric bill.
5. overfeed ◴[03 Sep 25 01:52 UTC] No.45111446[source]▶
Not everyone's "home server" is a backup server - some are for AI experiments.
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6. silon42 ◴[03 Sep 25 08:06 UTC] No.45113358{3}[source]▶
That one should be Wake-On-LAN
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7. overfeed ◴[03 Sep 25 16:16 UTC] No.45117521{4}[source]▶
I wouldn't want to fiddle with WoL just to get my self-hosted LLM-assisted code-completion working when I pickup my old and underpowered laptop on the couch for some quick hacking. Wake-on-any-network-activity would be perfect, and has superior UX.