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- From: hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig)
- Subject: Re: Interactive vs Background users
- Message-ID: <_WC=5r=@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 11:41:17 EST
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- References: <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au>
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- In article <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au> aps583@huxley.anu.edu.au (Anthony P Scott) writes:
- >
- >Hello there,
- >I am writing this post in the hope that some other NET people may have
- >a solution for a problem we have at the moment.
- >
- > [deleted]
- >
- > WE wish to
- >soak up the excess CPU cycles by running GAUSSIAN and other cpu
- >intensive programs in the background.
- >
- >Unfortunately when an interactive user comes along the terminal response
- >is terrible, they get upset and we are forced to kill the background
- >proccess.
- >
- >What we would really like is something that detects an interactive user
- >and places the background process in sleep, frees up memory and will
- >then allow better interactive terminal response.
- >
- > [deleted]
- >
- >A program that suspends the background process may also be OK, so
- >long as it is able to be started again from where it left off.
- >
- > [deleted]
- >
- >aps501@vp.anu.edu.au.oz
- >aps583@huxley.anu.edu.au.oz
- >
- >
- >Dr. Tony Scott.
- >
-
- Sounds to me like you need babysit - developed by the College
- of Engineering at the University of Michigan - which does just
- what you want. You'll have to ask them about licensing, as it's
- copyrighted. (I'm on campus, so they let me use it - I don't
- know their policy for external users.)
-
- Contact disser@engin.umich.edu or licenses@caen.engin.umich.edu
- for more information.
-
- --
- Kurt Hillig
- Dept. of Chemistry I always tell the khillig@umich.edu
- University of Michigan absolute truth Telephone (313)747-2867
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 as I see it. hillig@chem.lsa.umich.edu
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