Re: [tlug] Folding@example.com

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:38:00PM +1100, Sam Tilders wrote:
> However, it seems to be taking 97 - 99 percent of my CPU according to top. 
> This in itself is ok, as the machine I've started it on is probably idle a 
> lot of the time.

But it 'nice's itself to 19, so it is only running when your
machine would otherwise be idle.  (And the F@example.com client seems to
have a much smaller memory footprint than the SETI@example.com
client... so memory use is not as much of a concern.)

> But not long after I started getting warnings from the temperature sensor 
> software (lm_sensors). As soon as I stopped the F@example.com client the temp sensors 
> started to go back down again. Start the client again, temp goes up.

Linux normally halts the CPU when it is idle, which can
dramatically cut power dissipation.  When you are running the
F@example.com client, your CPU will never be idle.


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