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Re: SETI@Home?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:10:13 GMT
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On Mon, 31 May 1999 00:01:17 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
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> One thing I'm going to regret is having to stop the SETI thing from
> running on my full-time Linux box at home. That's where I plan on
> running the EveryAuction script for a good while, and I don't know of
> a way to make the SETI program take anything less than ALL of the CPU
> under Linux. I'd settle for giving it half if I could set it with a
> switch or something, but I can't have it bringing the machine to a
> crawl if several people hit it at once.
As far as I can tell on my windows box, it only uses the
not-needed-right-now cycles. Linux should _easily_ do that, as process
prioritization is built into it.
I know the linux rc5 client is permanently niced to 10, or something
like that. (I think SETI developed the client under linux, by the
way..)
> Good news is I'll be able to give it the full 128mb it started with
> next week. I just had my friend at a computer store order a 128mb
> dimm at his cost - $90. So 256 for my personal box and 128 for the
> Linux box. Then I'll be able to run Redhat 6, X, and VMware and give
> 128 to NT under it and 128 to Linux itself.
So, how _is_ this VMWare doing, and how much extra memory do I need
(from 64) to run a successfull Win98/NT under it?
Jasper "Not even mentioning my full harddisk" Janssen
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| (...) Yeah, I might see if it can play nice for a day or so. 'Course, bandwidth is more of an issue for me than processor power if the SETI client CAN play nice. But since I checked out (URL) last night and setup a website with CGI capability, I may (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Yeah, I hadn't really thought of that. One thing I'm going to regret is having to stop the SETI thing from running on my full-time Linux box at home. That's where I plan on running the EveryAuction script for a good while, and I don't know of (...) (25 years ago, 31-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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