> >setiathome requires about 0.5 MBytes disk space in its working > >directory, and about 12 MBytes of memory. If you have ample physical > >memory, it's work load should be almost undetectable. > > though with 16MB you are on the limits, I am not sure how would your > computers performance would be if you use X with them. I have seti@home running on a couple of low-end Pentiums with 16MB of RAM. Over the past week or so seti@home has been the only thing running on them. They are always swapping. From looking at the stats, I need to free up about 1 more MB of memory to make them swap free. I do have a partially stripped down kernel on both machines. But I've only had these two machine for a few weeks, and they were cobbled together, so I figure this is at least a minor stress test for them. Overall, due to the swapping, the seti program eats up 75% or so of the CPU. The overhead of all the swapping they are doing is eating up the other 25% (and most of that is probably waiting for the swapin/outs, so I'm probably collecting some idle time even with seti running). I think I can get things stripped down enough so that they won't swap, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
