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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.sgi,comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: Interactive vs Background users
- Message-ID: <s9r4mc0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:27:56 GMT
- References: <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1dsh2fINNeok@manuel.anu.edu.au> aps583@huxley.anu.edu.au (Anthony P Scott) writes:
- | 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.
- |
- | I work in a COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY group and while we have our own
- | machines to use we also have access to various other machines - in
- | particular an INDIGO R4K and SGI4D -- which are used by other research
- | groups for graphics to run AMBER, QUANTA
- | and other graphics based programs.
- |
- | The problem is that they are only used
- | for a small part of the day and certainly not at night. 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.
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- See the npri man page, and particularly -h. I'd try running them
- as something like 'npri -h 200'.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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