Ozz...my guess would be the amount of resources that it's using at the
time. Clearly something is becoming unstable. I've noticed that lately I
can run all kinds of other program while I'm running Seti without any
trouble. Even Star Office if you can believe that! However, as soon as I
start using Nutscrape there's a momentary flushing noise from Deeeeeeeeeep
inside the processor and X-windows crashes out to the Console login and
restarts X all over.
--
Mark
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* Pine 4.21 *
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:13am ,Austin L. Denyer spake passionately in a message:
> > I run Seti@home constantly and there's nothing wrong at all. Mine is an
> > AMD K6-233. So what's your point?
> >
> > What I'd like to know is the command that he's using to start the
> > program. Everything about Seti@home comes ready to go right out-a the
> > box. All you have to do is untar it to it's home and call it from the
> > command line. There isn't any configuring or compiling that needs to be
> > done.
> >
> > Example: (to call and start the program place the setiathome binary in
> > it's own directory - open a terminal window - navigate to that dir and
> > issue this command)
> >
> > ./setiathome -verbose -nice 19 <ENTER>
> >
> > that's ALL there is to it. I'm not trying to be rude here but it's not
> > rocket science. They've made it as simple as possible for very good
> > reason. They REALLY want EVERYONE to be able to use this program to crunch
> > the numbers for them.
>
> Well, for a start, it does need some configuration (actually registration
> information) the first time you run it.
>
> Secondly, mine has dumped core twice before (for no apparent reason), and
> solving that often IS rocket science...
>
> I run it myself constantly (Linux version mostly, but also the Windoze
> version when necessary), and it is generally pretty stable on my AMD
> K6/2-380.
>
> Regards,
> Ozz.
>
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