| Subject: Re: BOINC for Linux |
| From: Colin Jones |
| Date: 13/07/2004, 17:29 |
Hiya Martin 53N 1W.
In <news:dzTIc.104$FL5.61@newsfe3-win.ntli.net> you wrote:
Why? What are you trying to do exactly?
Just check progress from time to time. Maybe get some units in advance.
Just playing at the moment so not really sure of what to expect from it.
I've got boinc/seti running as a low-privileges user and just leave it
running along with various other low priority tasks:
Despite that loading, the 2.6 kernel is fully responsive.
Yeah, I've had Classic running that way for ages :)
So far, it's behaved itself fine untouched. The only change I've made is
to set the boinc cache to be for 0.5 to 1.0 days on the boinc user prefs
(boinc website).
I have mine set to 5 days, but it's only downloaded one unit so far. I
was expecting about 8 the rate this one works.
It should gracefully shut down on logout or shutdown. You can start it
up with a startup script depending on how you use your system. Don't
forget to use "su" as needs be so as not to run it as root.
Good point. Will have to take it off root at the earliest opportunity.
I've not shut this thing down for a while... I'll set up the scripts
whenever whatever next new tweaks are to be played with...
:-)