setiathome

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

In Linux it is not even noticeable. I have been running
setiathome for three weeks now with no noticeable impairment of
functioning here. It only briefly uses connectivity to download a
data set of about 350K and then usually hours later it uploads
the results and discards the data. Very nice. In fact it is
maximum "nice", which is 19. Check "man nice"

My average load pins the needle at 1.0 for one, five, and fifteen
minute periods, but as soon as I initiate something else,
setiathome steps aside with no arguments.

A bunch of speakuppers are constantly on the lookout for those
little green men, myself included.


On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Glenn Ervin at Home wrote:

> I don't know how it will work in Linux, but in windblows, it took me to 0
> system resources on a daily basis, and I ad to re-boot to be able to do
> anything with my computer.
> A 1.7 ghz P4 processor, & 256 MB ram.
> On broad band.
> Glenn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 7:30 PM
> Subject: re: setiathome
>
>
> setiathome is one of a few ongoing distributed computing projects.  The
> goal of this project is to locate extraterestrial communications in space.
> Linux can run software as well as other operating systems to do this work
> once it's downloaded onto your computer.  The software is supposed to do
> its work when the computer is left on line and unused.  If other more
> complex tasks are ongoing then it's supposed to go inactive.  The software
> downloads files from astronomy observatories and then does the analysis on
> what was found in those files then reports the analysis back to another
> site.  I figure others on other worlds have managed to do travel between
> star systems and probably don't even use radio spectrum for communications
> because of the slow speed of communications.  I've got no idea what's
> being used but I also think just on the odd chance we manage to find
> another world with beings at or a little beyond our stage of development
> this project might work.
>
>
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