Seti@Home

[Larkfellow]

Okay, I seem to be having some problems with seti@home. I registered and then when I ran it again it and logged in as an existing user. It pauses for a long time, then says no account with that e-mail address. But I can use it if I goto the seti homepage. If I try to create a new account with the same e-mail address I get the same error. Any ideas why?

And just now when I tried it couldn't connect to the server. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

okay that seems to be the problem now, is the my connection keeps timing out. I believe that it may be problems with the firewall I'm running. Any idea what ports I should open for it? Or how to get it to work on any ports already open?

[This message has been edited by Larkfellow (edited 11 November 2000).]

[Larkfellow]

Okay, well just posting to let everybody know I figured out what my 2 problems where.
1) When I entered my e-mail address when I registered I used a capital letter in the e-mail address. So when I tried to log in again I used the same capital and I should have used all lower case
2) The connection error was no fault of my own, it was just the fact that their server was busy. I later connected and downloaded my cell.

On another note though, I was wondering if anybody knew what the -nice option actually does? What's the difference from using a nice level of 1 from a nice level of 19?

[carwyn]

Nice essentially alters the scheduling priority of a program, ie. how much of the processor time it gets.

Nice is a command that allows you to alter the priority of a program. The range of allowable priority values is from -20 to 19, with -20 being the highest priority and 19 being the lowest.

With seti@home I tend to use a nice of 19 so it doesn't interfere too much with whatever else I'm doing.

If you want more info about nice try doing

"man nice"

at the prompt to view its' man page.

[Strike]

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