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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?  ;^)

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com


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