I run seti@home myself. Seti has a -nice flag for running it in the back
ground. What I did is set up a cron job with the following statement in it.
0 * * * * cd /home/seti1/setiathome; ./setiathome -graphics -nice 19 >
/dev/null 2> /dev/null
This is almost straight out of the README file. I ad
OK.
Devon wrote:
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> On Wednesday 27 February 2002 10:03 pm, Hidong Kim wrote:
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> > The & will run the job in the background. But if you log out of your
> > session, I think the job will die. If you use nohup, your job will
> > continu
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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 10:03 pm, Hidong Kim wrote:
> The & will run the job in the background. But if you log out of your
> session, I think the job will die. If you use nohup, your job will
> continue to run after you log out, as long as t
Devon wrote:
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> On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:38 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
> > Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case,
> > SETI) from the command line such that it will stay running when I close
> > the window?
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David Talkington wrote:
>>Also, is there a way I can dynamically alter the amount of processor time a
>>given program will take?
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>man nice.
Sorry, if by "dynamically" you mean an already-running process, then
you want 'man renice'.
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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:38 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
> Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case,
> SETI) from the command line such that it will stay running when I close
> the window?
In the case of seti:
cd seti
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Julian Opificius wrote:
>Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, SETI)
>from the command line such that it will stay running when I close the window?
Tacking & at the end of the command line may do it.
>Also, is there a
Julian Opificius wrote:
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> Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, SETI)
> from the command line such that it will stay running when I close the window?
nohup
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> Also, is there a way I can dynamically alter the amount of processor time a
> given program will tak
Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, SETI)
from the command line such that it will stay running when I close the window?
Also, is there a way I can dynamically alter the amount of processor time a
given program will take?
I wish I could remember all this stuff. L
