Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-09 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I posted a thread on the folding forums. If no one replies before to long, I'm going to delete and start over with a fresh install. Maybe I got a bug or something. Knowing me, I just screwed up something. LOL It happens, especially with me. :( The best thing that has happened

[gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Hi all, it is me again. LOL I run folding on all my rigs and noticed something strange. It uses screen so I can detach, logout and etc. Check this out though: top - 06:27:32 up 19:34, 4 users, load average: 2.08, 0.76, 0.26 Tasks: 103 total, 3 running, 100 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Thanks, I hope someone knows how to fix this. I may copy my config file from one of my other rigs and try it. Sort of chicken though. Dale :-) OK, it is in the config file somewhere. I renamed the old config screenrc.old and then copied the config file from another rig, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: That is how it should be. I do want to figue out that config thing though. It may cause something else to mess up that I don't know about, yet. Disregard all that. I was logged into one of my old rigs via ssh and didn't notice it. That was the old rig that runs correctly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
OK, as a bit of a update. I started a screen session and then emerged mozilla inside that session. It worked fine that way. There is something wrong with the way folding is using screen I guess. So I did a bit more digging here. I found this command in one of the startup scripts:

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:35:27PM -0600, Dale wrote: add_pref=screen -dmS FAH1 I looked at the man page, they are listed but I have no clue what the heck they do, even though I RTFM. Does anybody here see something wrong with these options? Maybe have some better options that I can use?

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: Looks alright, fairly standard options. -d -m (same as -dm) implies starts a new screen detached -S FAH1 says that screen session will be named FAH1, so you can reattach the session via 'screen -r FAH1' It is probably something else that is causing you trouble. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:25:59PM -0600, Dale wrote: You're right, it is something else. I used the command with something beside folding and it works just fine. I have no clue what to do with this thing. I also searched the emerge log, screen has not been updated. I may delete the

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: Sorry if you might have explained this before, but can you refresh my memory on what it is, this folding thing you keep referring to? W Well, I didn't but I thought most everybody had heard of it. http://folding.stanford.edu/ It is a medical research thing that people

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:07:17 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Willie Wong wrote: Sorry if you might have explained this before, but can you refresh my memory on what it is, this folding thing you keep referring to? W Well, I didn't but I thought most everybody had heard of it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:15:36PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: U is it possible that the screen cpu usage is reflecting the CPU usage of folding (which is running within a screen session if I read you posts properly) perhaps try running some other cpu intensive task within screen and see

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:07:17PM -0600, Dale wrote: Well, I didn't but I thought most everybody had heard of it. http://folding.stanford.edu/ It is a medical research thing that people run on their rigs. It is very CPU intensive too. If you think you have a cooling issue with your

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Nick Rout wrote: U is it possible that the screen cpu usage is reflecting the CPU usage of folding (which is running within a screen session if I read you posts properly) perhaps try running some other cpu intensive task within screen and see what happens? I tried that and it worked

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen is being a CPU hog, big time!!!

2005-11-08 Thread Dale
Willie Wong wrote: Oh... the protein folding thing. Since you run it in screen, I assume you are running the text-mode client? Just out of curiousity, on the two boxes you have, did you run the same version of the client? I just downloaded the stable version (FAH502-Linux.exe) and have been