Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-03-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:56:26PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > > I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working > with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies > from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of > analysis routinely t

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:45:36AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:59:14 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:15:45 GMT > > > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > [sni

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:59:14 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:15:45 GMT > > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Actually, I do pop into firefox and xpdf once in a while to

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:15:45 GMT > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Actually, I do pop into firefox and xpdf once in a while to check a > > reference, which is not possible without X, but your point is well > > You

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-22 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:15:45 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Actually, I do pop into firefox and xpdf once in a while to check a > reference, which is not possible without X, but your point is well You could actually pipe the pdf through a pdf to text / html converter (e.g. p

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:47:21 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Thanks for the suggestion. As I'm working with one machine I do > eliminate all processes I don't need, but I keep X, fluxbox, and a > terminal or two open so I can work on my thesis in emacs while I'm > waiting for

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-20, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> I don't doubt that you've got a pretty light-weight setup there, but >> you haven't mentioned anything that requires you to run X yet... :) >> >> just pointing it out. > > Even if he shut down X, he isn't

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I don't doubt that you've got a pretty light-weight setup there, but you haven't mentioned anything that requires you to run X yet... :) just pointing it out. Even if he shut down X, he isn't going to see any speedup. He's already using all the CPU. Mike -- p="p

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Øyvind Røtvold wrote: Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% by system, which conflicts with the line item for paup, a user process, which shows 99

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 2/19/07, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I check with top, it appears that paup is using 99% of the CPU when I do this, which is as it should be. I just wanted to check with more experienced people to verify that running paup from within emacs is not going to incur a performance hi

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:47:21AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-02-19, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All I can > > suggest is that you eliminate *every* process that you don't need in > > order to do your thing. If you're running emacs -nw, then you must be > > runnin

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-20 Thread Øyvind Røtvold
Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part > from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% > by system, which conflicts with the line item for paup, a user > process, which shows 99% CPU use. So I'm

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-19, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I can > suggest is that you eliminate *every* process that you don't need in > order to do your thing. If you're running emacs -nw, then you must be > running X in some form, do you need it? If not, get rid of it -- X > will on

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-20, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part >> from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% >> by system,

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% by system, which conflicts with the line item for paup, a user process, which shows

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:56:26PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, Hi, > > I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working > with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies > from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of > analysi

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working > with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies > from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of > analysis routinely tak