Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:53:04 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Stefan Bethke <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, "Ueda, Kazukiyo" <kueda@jupiter.qse.tohoku.ac.jp>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available Message-ID: <37419AF0.93569574@softweyr.com> References: <224739.3136033369@d225.promo.de>
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Stefan Bethke wrote:
>
> Make sure you have the newest version of the port (for setiathome-1.1).
> Pre-1.1 version don't work anymore. Unfortunatly, the release of 1.1 came
> too late for the 3.2 CDs. Even more unfortunate is the fact that all
> versions (including 1.1) try to send mail by invoking /usr/lib/sendmail...
>
> I guess I'll be changing the port quite rapidly for the next few days as
> next version comes out, which is supposed to fix the sendmail as well as
> the proxy problem.
Thank you.
> > One thing I've been meaning to look at though is that it seems to run it
> > at niceness 1, which isn't exactly friendly to the other consumers of
> > CPU. You should be able to tweak it easily, though.
>
> Would you suggest a different default nice level, then, and what should it
> be?
RTP_PRIO_IDLE of course. See rtprio(2).
> One can easily modifiy ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh to run it with
> -nice 100, and I'm open to making a level other that 1 the default.
In that case, make the start script run it at idprio:
idprio setiathome
Phew! That was tough, huh? ;^)
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