Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 12:05:11 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dave Rossow <dave@dreksys.com>, jgrosch@mooseriver.com Subject: Re: SETI on FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.990418120511.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <3719DFF0.DD15987@thuntek.net>
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On 18-Apr-99 Donald Wilde wrote: > Josef Grosch wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 01:13:05PM -0700, Dave Rossow wrote: >> > Anybody know how CPU intensive the SETI app is? I love to run it on > > [snip] >> CPU states: 8.9% user, 86.0% nice, 2.7% system, 2.3% interrupt, 0.0% >> idle >> Mem: 84M Active, 12M Inact, 18M Wired, 5804K Cache, 8340K Buf, 3520K Free >> Swap: 256M Total, 30M Used, 226M Free, 12% Inuse >> >> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND >> 49801 jgrosch 92 1 15036K 14532K RUN 25.9H 91.41% 91.41% setiathome > >> Any questions ? >> >> Josef >> >> -- > In short, the SETI program will use everything that's left over, same > with the RC5 client. You can set your 'niceness' to minimize its effect > on your system. I asssume that if you set it to run at an idle priority ( man idprio ) it has virtually no impact on the system. OTOH, if you run it at a niceness of 20, it can still have some impact because it always runs at least a little. With idprio it seems to only run when the system is truly idle. Granted, my experience is with the RC5 client, but the concepts should be the same for seti@home as well. > -- > Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" > Wilde Media > 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 > Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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