Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:02:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Viren R. Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@thuntek.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Dave Rossow <dave@dreksys.com>, jgrosch@mooseriver.com Subject: Re: SETI on FreeBSD Message-ID: <199904191402.KAA01526@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990418120511.jobaldwi@vt.edu> References: <3719DFF0.DD15987@thuntek.net> <XFMail.990418120511.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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>>>>> "John" == John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> writes:
John> I asssume that if you set it to run at an idle priority ( man
John> idprio ) it has virtually no impact on the system. OTOH, if
John> you run it at a niceness of 20, it can still have some impact
John> because it always runs at least a little. With idprio it seems
John> to only run when the system is truly idle. Granted, my
John> experience is with the RC5 client, but the concepts should be
John> the same for seti@home as well.
74 processes: 3 running, 70 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle
Mem: 73M Active, 28M Inact, 14M Wired, 7808K Cache, 8028K Buf, 632K Free
Swap: 256M Total, 256M Free
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
1001 vshah 105 1 14776K 14380K RUN 13:02 58.15% 58.15% setiatho
285 nobody 105 20 904K 380K RUN 22:36 33.74% 33.74% rc5des
722 vshah 2 0 13884K 12940K select 1:10 2.00% 2.00% xemacs-1
583 vshah 2 0 23232K 21236K select 0:45 1.27% 1.27% XF86_SVG
611 vshah 2 0 1924K 1280K select 0:01 0.05% 0.05% fvwm2
735 vshah 2 0 23644K 18848K select 0:09 0.00% 0.00% communic
620 vshah 10 0 2444K 1736K nanslp 0:05 0.00% 0.00% xearth
I have both rc5 and seti running on my work machine. It does slow down
big compiles, but just give the compile a higher priority. rc5 is
running nice'd, but seti is running at normal priority. It doesn't
affect "normal" interactive response. If I run x11amp on the, the
sound output is as good as ever.
This is on a PIi 400 w/ 128M RAM.
Viren
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