Re: whats going on with the scheduler?

From: Andy Farkas (andyf_at_speednet.com.au)
Date: 07/08/03

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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>

    On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

    > It's not clear what your link speed is, but it's possible that
    > what's happening is that the setiathome processes are stalling
    > waiting for work units because you are using up your available
    > network bandwidth.

    setiathome is a cpu intensive process. It touches the network maybe once
    in a 24 hour period when it downloads a ~400k work unit which takes less
    than 10 seconds over my 512k/128k dsl link and then proceeds to number
    crunch. Stalling on work units is not whats happening.

    > If this is what's ahppening, you might want to try bandwidth
    > limiting the scp and/or running with Alt-Q and/or begging Julian

    I *did* limit scp:

    > scp -c blowfish -p -l 100 remote.host:filename . 

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 :{ andyf@speednet.com.au
        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
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