Re: Mersenne: Version 20 memory questions

[Pierre Abbat]

>However, I assume that it will be possible to specify (change) what
>hours are the
>ON hours. I suppose that midnight to 06:00 would be fine for most
>people, as a
>default.

This probably depends on your distro. Red Hat and Mandrake run their crontabs
between 4 and 5 in the morning, so that hour may be bad; but those processes,
which consist of building a database of all the files on the disk and all the
man pages, are I/O bound, not compute bound.

phma
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