Hi, I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of analysis routinely takes hours to days of processing. I find it is convenient to run paup in *shell* mode inside emacs -nw, allowing me to easily yank commands from various files into the paup process.
When I check with top, it appears that paup is using 99% of the CPU when I do this, which is as it should be. I just wanted to check with more experienced people to verify that running paup from within emacs is not going to incur a performance hit. The analysis I have running at the moment (heuristic search) will take more than 5 hours, and if that works properly I'll be continuing on with a follow-up (bootstrap) that will take several days, so tweaking performance is a non-trivial concern. Any comments on my current set-up or suggestions for ways to tweak performance in any way would be most welcome! -- Regards, Tyler Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]