From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 23 4: 2:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mpp.pro-ns.net (pppdsle70.mpls.uswest.net [216.160.23.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A601560A for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:02:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net) Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.pro-ns.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA15287; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 06:02:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mpp) From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199908231102.GAA15287@mpp.pro-ns.net> Subject: Re: HELP! please In-Reply-To: <37C0917D.72229E47@ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurtesen at "Aug 23, 1999 03:10:37 am" To: yurtesen@ispro.net.tr (Evren Yurtesen) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 06:02:00 -0500 (CDT) Cc: kenndc@cyberdude.com (Kenn D Crossley), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >setiathome requires about 0.5 MBytes disk space in its working > >directory, and about 12 MBytes of memory. If you have ample physical > >memory, it's work load should be almost undetectable. > > though with 16MB you are on the limits, I am not sure how would your > computers performance would be if you use X with them. I have seti@home running on a couple of low-end Pentiums with 16MB of RAM. Over the past week or so seti@home has been the only thing running on them. They are always swapping. From looking at the stats, I need to free up about 1 more MB of memory to make them swap free. I do have a partially stripped down kernel on both machines. But I've only had these two machine for a few weeks, and they were cobbled together, so I figure this is at least a minor stress test for them. Overall, due to the swapping, the seti program eats up 75% or so of the CPU. The overhead of all the swapping they are doing is eating up the other 25% (and most of that is probably waiting for the swapin/outs, so I'm probably collecting some idle time even with seti running). I think I can get things stripped down enough so that they won't swap, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message