Peter Smithson wrote:

evandro@mailandnews.com says...

FWIW, I have a dual Athlon MP 1800+ server which consumes an additional
37W from 201W when it's running CPDN, according to the UPS load
monitor.

The load can vary between the several BOINC applications, but I would
expect the power used by each of them to be very similar.

Hmmm - this is the kind of thing that worries me slightly as our UPS supply is limited (as anyones is).  If the UPS doesn't last as long because I'm running SETI on 6 of our servers then I wouldn't be too popular!  I'm not sure if the hardware/OS I use will have this increase in power though.

If you are worried about that, then you should have UPS support software running that can shut down non-essential services when on battery power, and then later do a clean shutdown before the battery runs flat.

Also, you have have tested the system and your backups?

Good luck,
Martin