[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Robert Brockway]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Robert Brockway <robert at blake.humbug.org.au>)

Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com> wrote:
: (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Martin Pool <martinp at mincom.com>)

: As others pointed out a nice 20 process will still use a few percent of
: the processor even when it's busy with nice 0 tasks.  You can always
: kill it if you need more power and restart it later.

This is interesting, as I was always under the impression that nice 20
processes ran only when they system was otherwise idle.  Can anyone
comment if this how it is for other unices (other than Linux that is) ?
Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at blake.humbug.org.au
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