On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:47:21AM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-02-19, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote: > > All I can > > suggest is that you eliminate *every* process that you don't need in > > order to do your thing. If you're running emacs -nw, then you must be > > running X in some form, do you need it? If not, get rid of it -- X > > will on occaision demand some cpu. If it works out to a couple % over > > a couple days, you're looking at an h our or so.=20 > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. As I'm working with one machine I do > eliminate all processes I don't need, but I keep X, fluxbox, and a > terminal or two open so I can work on my thesis in emacs while I'm > waiting for paup to run. I imagine if I reconfig my startup stuff I > could login without X, start running paup, then start X while I'm > working, and kill X when I'm done, leaving paup undisturbed. I'll take > a look at this. Thanks! > I don't doubt that you've got a pretty light-weight setup there, but you haven't mentioned anything that requires you to run X yet... :) just pointing it out. A
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