Re: [TCLUG:14678] running rc5 crackers

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:26:19PM -0600, Clay Fandre wrote:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > 
> >         how do people have their rc5 (seti|ogr|whathaveyou) crackers
> > running? do you start them as a service from the system init scripts
> > (rc.local, etc)? or something started in an rxvt when you start X? (started
> > from your .xinitrc)
> 
> Start them from cron. Then you can run them in the middle of the night
> when you're not using the system. (And then kill them from cron in the
> morning)

	I like being able to pull up a screen that shows the progress,
so I run it inside of 'screen', and then detach my session.  I leave it
running all the time at nice +19.  The only performance degredation I've
noticed is the fact that it uses up memory.  That's one of the reasons
I've switched to icewm instead of E.

	I even play quake3 or Unreal while it's running and everything's
fine.  My CPU isn't even incredibly beefy.  It's a K6-3 450.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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