On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, David Guntner wrote: > On the subject of Seti@home: > > For those of you who have been running it on your Linux box, how well does > it run? Does it suck up a lot of CPU? My setup is 256M of memory with an > AMD K6-2 550MHz on a 100MHz motherboard. I've been running the screensaver > client on my Windows 98 SE box for a LONG time now, and since it only runs > when the screensaver is active, I don't see any performance hit on that > machine. > > I've been hesitant to fire it up on my Linux box because it would be a > always-running client, and since I run a number of other things there (and > hope to be running a Neverwinter Nights server on that box, once the $#@! > game is finally released :) So, fellow Seti@home users, what's the verdict > on running it under Linux? :-) >
Just nice it to hell and it'll only consume whatever cycles your not using. Basically the same idea as the screensaver version running when the machine is idle except even better since it'll even use unused cycles when the machine is less than fully loaded. ------------------------------ Travis Olds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research Student Jacaranda Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Adelaide
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