Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Ueda, Kazukiyo
Hi hackers, I'm pleased to participate in such cool project. Is anybody kind enough to tell me how to run this program while the FreeBSD box is idle? Thanks in advance, -- Kazukiyo Ueda To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Ueda, Kazukiyo wrote: I'm pleased to participate in such cool project. Is anybody kind enough to tell me how to run this program while the FreeBSD box is idle? Install the astro/setiathome port. One thing I've been meaning to look at though is that it seems to run it at

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, At 16:48 18/05/99 +0900, Ueda, Kazukiyo wrote: I'm pleased to participate in such cool project. Is anybody kind enough to tell me how to run this program while the FreeBSD box is idle? man nice -- Bob Bishop +44 118 977 4017 r...@gid.co.uk fax +44 118 989 4254

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Stefan Bethke
Kris Kennaway kkenn...@physics.adelaide.edu.au wrote: On Tue, 18 May 1999, Ueda, Kazukiyo wrote: I'm pleased to participate in such cool project. Is anybody kind enough to tell me how to run this program while the FreeBSD box is idle? Install the astro/setiathome port. Make sure you have

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
#define quoting(Stefan Bethke) // Kris Kennaway kkenn...@physics.adelaide.edu.au wrote: // On Tue, 18 May 1999, Ueda, Kazukiyo wrote: // One thing I've been meaning to look at though is that it seems to run it // at niceness 1, which isn't exactly friendly to the other consumers of // CPU. You

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Wes Peters
Stefan Bethke wrote: Make sure you have the newest version of the port (for setiathome-1.1). Pre-1.1 version don't work anymore. Unfortunatly, the release of 1.1 came too late for the 3.2 CDs. Even more unfortunate is the fact that all versions (including 1.1) try to send mail by invoking

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 18), Wes Peters said: Stefan Bethke wrote: Would you suggest a different default nice level, then, and what should it be? RTP_PRIO_IDLE of course. See rtprio(2). One can easily modifiy ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/setiathome.sh to run it -with nice 100, and I'm open

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Wes Peters
Dan Nelson wrote: Problem is that idprio isn't safe. I used to idprio the rc5client, but within a day or do the machine would lock up. Rc5client would get a lock on the root of the filesystem at idprio, and if there was another process running at 100% CPU, rc5client would never get a

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Dan Nelson wrote: : : Problem is that idprio isn't safe. I used to idprio the rc5client, but : within a day or do the machine would lock up. Rc5client would get a : lock on the root of the filesystem at idprio, and if there was another : process running at 100% CPU, rc5client would never get

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-18 Thread Andreas Braukmann
Hi, On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: Problem is that idprio isn't safe. I used to idprio the rc5client, but within a day or do the machine would lock up. oops. That's new for me. I'm running the 'rc5client' on various machines (2.2.6-stable, 2.2.8-stable,

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-17 Thread Stefan Bethke
Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! The project has been running a beta test for a while, but as of May 13th 1999 they reset the stats and

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-17 Thread Joao Carlos Mendes Luis
#define quoting(Matthew Dillon) // This reduces the effect an idprio seti background task has on the rest of // the system. Yeah... I was going to ask just this. My users complained about server response after starting setiathome. // sysctl -w kern.quantum=2 Humm, my systems

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-17 Thread Julian Elischer
Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: #define quoting(Matthew Dillon) // This reduces the effect an idprio seti background task has on the rest of // the system. Yeah... I was going to ask just this. My users complained about server response after starting setiathome. // sysctl

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-16 Thread Craig Harding
Joe Abley jab...@clear.co.nz wrote: I compiled the 1.1 client for FreeBSD3.1 -- what seems to be the problem with it? [It seemed to work ok for me, but I admit I didn't test it very exhaustively]. I'm running it on a P166 box running 3.1, and it's running quite happily. As an aside: I

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:56:05PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: :http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ : : Now available at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/ : :-DG : :David Greenman :Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org :Creator of

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Joe Abley
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 04:57:30PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: So do I. I would like them to make the source available. I have *lots* of machines available that are sitting doing nothing. But they don't run FreeBSD (yet). I have at least 3 alpha 8200s and 4 Alpha 4100s that are running

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
:If people have been having problems with proxy support in the 1.1 client :on FreeBSD, let me know and I'll mail you a new binary to test. It seems to be working now. Maybe it was just some bad work units. Very Odd. -Matt

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread David Greenman
BTW, this story might be of interest: http://www.msnbc.com/news/255770.asp -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
The seti stuff appears to be working again. I think they just had some bad data batches. I'm running it on 6 cpus at idprio. Hmm.. seems to effect responsiveness some, sounds like something in the scheduler that we should be able to fix :-)

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
This reduces the effect an idprio seti background task has on the rest of the system. sysctl -w kern.quantum=2 The default is 100,000 ( 100ms ) which, for a modern cpu, is much more chunky then it needs to be. Reducing it to 20ms makes a big difference. At 10 I can

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-15 Thread Julian Elischer
beware, I think this sysctl does something different on 3.x as I think there was a code freeze on 3.x when we fixed it.. On Sat, 15 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: This reduces the effect an idprio seti background task has on the rest of the system. sysctl -w kern.quantum=2

Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! The project has been running a beta test for a while, but as of May 13th 1999 they reset the stats and introduced new clients for Unix, Windows, and the Mac.

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Nate Williams
For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! Where would would find informatio on said project? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start : putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! : :Where would would find informatio on said project? : : :Nate Oops! I'm sorry! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Mike Smith
: For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start : putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! : :Where would would find informatio on said project? : : :Nate Oops! I'm sorry! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ They're not responding

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread David Greenman
: : For people who have idle cpu to spare, this is a good time to start : putting those cycles to good use with the Seti project! : :Where would would find informatio on said project? : : :Nate Oops! I'm sorry! http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Now available at

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ : : Now available at ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/setiathome/ : :-DG : :David Greenman :Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org :Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Yah, but I

Re: Seti project / stats reset, new version available

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Jacob
So do I. I would like them to make the source available. I have *lots* of machines available that are sitting doing nothing. But they don't run FreeBSD (yet). I have at least 3 alpha 8200s and 4 Alpha 4100s that are running NetBSD now and mostly quiescent. On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Dillon