How many people would want their browser recording and sending off a list of every site they visited during the day? Even then, I doubt it would be a particularly good way of finding new sites that weren't already in your search engine.
Mine's using about 14M. This machine has oodles of the stuff, but yeah I suppose for most that's quite a lot for all the time. Shouldn't be a problem as a screensaver if you just leave it overnight, though. You could always run RC5 at a lower priority and have SETI for your screensaver or something.;-)
Just did a test with a couple of while(1); processes, and Seti@home drops off the CPU. It does still use some memory, of course, which may make a difference to some.
On NT you can change the process priority to "Low", which I've done. Right-click on the "SETI@Home.exe" process in the "processes" tab in the Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring it up).
I haven't noticed anything else slow down so far, but I've only been running it for 15 minutes, on a ridiculously overpowered PC.:-)
I could swear I read that same news.com story linked to from the previous story about this.:-)
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You're forgetting the privacy issue.
How many people would want their browser recording and sending off a list of every site they visited during the day? Even then, I doubt it would be a particularly good way of finding new sites that weren't already in your search engine.
Chris
Mine's using about 14M. This machine has oodles of the stuff, but yeah I suppose for most that's quite a lot for all the time. ;-)
Shouldn't be a problem as a screensaver if you just leave it overnight, though. You could always run RC5 at a lower priority and have SETI for your screensaver or something.
Chris
Just did a test with a couple of while(1); processes, and Seti@home drops off the CPU. It does still use some memory, of course, which may make a difference to some.
Chris
On NT you can change the process priority to "Low", which I've done. Right-click on the "SETI@Home.exe" process in the "processes" tab in the Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc to bring it up).
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I haven't noticed anything else slow down so far, but I've only been running it for 15 minutes, on a ridiculously overpowered PC.
Chris
I could swear I read that same news.com story linked to from the previous story about this. :-)
Chris
Would be nice to be able to see the articles (on the index page) with oldest at the top and newest on the bottom, rather than reading them from bottom up.
Where's the advertised "user space" check box? Am I just blind/stupid or is it just not there on the preferences page?