[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Rob Kearey]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Rob Kearey <r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au>)

Patrick Nichols wrote:

> Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't seti use up inordinate amounts of ram
> when compared with rc5? (another distributed computing client)  Also,
> doesn't seti take *much* longer to complete a block than rc5?

Hmm. I haven't checked before. Let's see:

[robk at ningaui robk]$ cat /proc/5438/status
Name:   setiathome
State:  R (running)
Pid:    5438
PPid:   778
Uid:    500     500     500     500
Gid:    500     500     500     500
Groups: 500 
VmSize:    14928 kB
VmLck:         0 kB
VmRSS:     14056 kB
VmData:    13632 kB
VmStk:         8 kB
VmExe:        60 kB
VmLib:      1188 kB

That's my machine, with 128 MB. 

> -pat

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