[K12OSN] power...seti at home overloading computers

[Darryl Palmer]

On 8/18/06, Accessys at smart.net <accessys at smart.net> wrote:
>
>
> put the setiathome distributed computing operation on the computer to run
> when the machines are not being used.  problem is that the process is
> overloading the computers and shutting them down in the middle of the
> night when no one is arround, I have had to reboot everything first thing
> in the morning, to check things out I have had it "Suspended" past couple
> days and everything is working fine, have limited the amount of time it
> runs but that doesn't seem to be working,  any tricks to say have the
> process only run for an hour then suspend for a while and then pick it up
> again
>

Is the new Seti at Home client based on BOINC yet?

If it is then the BOINC command line client should have an -exit_after N
option where N repreents the number of seconds that the client should exit
after.

Darryl Palmer
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