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		perlgeek on March 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop I can imagine many valid use cases for an RDMS waking up regularly, and a laptop really isn't the environment it was originally developed for. The really questionable thing is automatically installing it along with Visual Studio.

brucedawson on March 8, 2016 [–]

Waking up every minute is fine. Spending 1.5 s of CPU time doing nothing... I think I could improve on that. That's enough CPU time to drag down overall performance slightly when the machine is not idle.

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