Rial Juan wrote:
>
> No you don't. xseti is not needed for a correct operation of setiathome. It's
> just some graphical output that slows down your computer while drawing nice
> graphics.
>
> On Mar 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > So where does one find the 'xseti' binary? I downloaded the
> > setiathome binary and have it running with the -graphics flag, but I
> > need the companion program...
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Sorry, I should have said "want". Yeah, I figured out it
was slowing things down alot by looking at top. Nice to see what it's
doing though occasionally.
If I'm only running 1 instance of setiathome on a 2 processor
machine, I'm guessing running the display probably doesn't hurt performance
_that_ much -- depending on how you have 'nice' values set.
Now it would be cooler on the xseti display if they resized
it according to whatever you size the Xwindow to be. I tried their
fullscreen option -- bleh -- just drew blank space around the small
display. Not greatly impressive.
Too bad the source code isn't available -- I'd like to see
how they optimize it. I wonder if some of the new PIII instructions
could be used to speed up the computations even further?
-linda
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