Re: [Hampshire] Worthwhile screensaver

2008/5/29 Rob Malpass <lug@???>:
> Hi all
>
> Does anyone have any good recommendations for a "worthwhile"
> screensaver?There are obviously thousands out there that either blank the
> screen, play a video, draw a pretty picture or do something allegedly
> amusing.
>
> I'd quite like to have my spare clock cycles do something more useful -
> though I'm not really interested in SETI. Anybody know of any good ones
> that might do something interesting without guzzling my bandwidth?
>
> Any ideas welcome, but as I say I'm not interested in cartoons or just
> playing videos / slideshows etc.
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>

For a machine not carrying out any server like tasks, I think a
suspend to RAM screen saver is about the most useful. It will save the
most power. If the machine is carrying out server like tasks, then a
simple power down of the screen is probably all it can do.
For a machine that periodically collects stats. I good option could be
to get it to grab the stats, suspend and automatically wake up X
minutes later to grab the stats again, and the repeat.