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Re: SETI@Home?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:43:10 GMT
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cjc@IHATESPAMnewsguy.com
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Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 1999 00:01:17 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
> 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.
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 http://www.hypermart.net last night and setup
a website with CGI capability, I may not need to run it at home in
anything other than test mode anyway (the auction script).
> 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..)
Hrmmm, neat.
> So, how _is_ this VMWare doing, and how much extra memory do I need
> (from 64) to run a successfull Win98/NT under it?
VMware is pretty good. I'm going to order a copy for work this week
and once I do some more testing of it I will probably buy a personal
copy for myself at home.
As for memory, I had 128 in my box at home and I was giving NT 64 of
that. NT really likes more than that, though, so I stole 64 from my
Linux box. Giving NT 96 and Linux 96 seemed to work fairly well.
Since RAM is cheap right now I figure I can afford to bump my main box
up to 256.
Don't let anyone tell you that NT runs just as fast as native, though
- it just plain doesn't. I'd say NT runs as well as it did on my
200mmx, which is bearable, I suppose.
> Jasper "Not even mentioning my full harddisk" Janssen
Well, I gave Linux 3 gigs on my home and work machines. A gig for
Linux itself, then between 1 and 1.5 gigs for NT (maybe so I can test
server running some things like SQL Server 7, Oracle, etc. Hard disks
are cheap too, though.
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