Re: [Sheflug] Multiple instances of Seti Client

[Marcus Hanwell <linux [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

Alasdair Munro wrote:

> Does anyone have experience of running multiple instances of the Seti
> commandline client?
>
> Anyone know if this is likely to be more productive that the graphical 
> (windoze) client?The command line SETI client is more productive than the Windows graphical client, but running more than 1 instance is not more productive. Even if you have multiple CPUs in your system running one instance is best as it can take advantage of multiple CPUs.
>  
I run it in my default run level so that it automatically starts up with 
Linux - running Gentoo Linux I can just 'emerge setiathome' and it sets 
this up for me. I am sure you could accomplish similar in other distros 
and set an appropriate nice value for it.

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