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Date:      25 May 1999 18:00:54 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        cjclark@home.com
Cc:        dpilgrim@uswest.net (Darren Pilgrim), doconnor@gsoft.com.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, crh@outpost.co.nz, mark@borg.com
Subject:   Re: SETI@home has teams now!
Message-ID:  <xzpk8txkukp.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 11:54:41 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <199905251554.LAA06918@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>

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"Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> writes:
> That all said, I do kill setiathome during work hours (on work
> machines). However, it has nothing to do with CPU usage. setiathome
> eats about 14 MB of memory. On my 64 MB RAM PC here at work, that's
> enough to cause some swapping, and _that_ can hit performance.

Just SIGSTOP it. It'll get swapped out if you run low on memory. Then
SIGCONT it when you leave work.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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