On Fri Mar 28, 2003 at 12:26:54PM +0100, the boisterous Joerg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de> wrote to me: > I'm running seti@home on my laptop, but the near 100% CPU usage results in my > processor fan constatly being on. Is there a way on telling seti@home to use > the CPU at no more than, say 30%? > I have already set it to nice 19, but this affects only the priority, so that > an other process can take over the CPU more easily, this does not reduce CPU > load. A quick look gave me: limits(5) In Debian it seems to be /etc/security/limits.conf and not /etc/limits as described in limits(5) so long Thomas -- ___ Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. _/___\ - W. Richard Stevens ( ^ > Thomas Krennwallner <djmaecki at ull dot at> / \ 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B (__\/_)_ http://bigfish.ull.at/~djmaecki/
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