Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 06:02:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> To: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr (Evren Yurtesen) Cc: kenndc@cyberdude.com (Kenn D Crossley), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! please Message-ID: <199908231102.GAA15287@mpp.pro-ns.net> In-Reply-To: <37C0917D.72229E47@ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurtesen at "Aug 23, 1999 03:10:37 am"
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> >setiathome requires about 0.5 MBytes disk space in its working > >directory, and about 12 MBytes of memory. If you have ample physical > >memory, it's work load should be almost undetectable. > > though with 16MB you are on the limits, I am not sure how would your > computers performance would be if you use X with them. I have seti@home running on a couple of low-end Pentiums with 16MB of RAM. Over the past week or so seti@home has been the only thing running on them. They are always swapping. From looking at the stats, I need to free up about 1 more MB of memory to make them swap free. I do have a partially stripped down kernel on both machines. But I've only had these two machine for a few weeks, and they were cobbled together, so I figure this is at least a minor stress test for them. Overall, due to the swapping, the seti program eats up 75% or so of the CPU. The overhead of all the swapping they are doing is eating up the other 25% (and most of that is probably waiting for the swapin/outs, so I'm probably collecting some idle time even with seti running). I think I can get things stripped down enough so that they won't swap, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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