folding-at-home team mailing list archive

[Daniel Chandler <djchandler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 19:21 +0000, Christopher Swift wrote:
> 2010/1/21 Christer Edwards <christer.edwards@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >> ...[snip]...  What I'd like is some way to run these applications without
> >> conflicting with my running of Skype,  I can sometimes video
> >> conference 10 hours a day so obviously I don't want to just disable
> >> Folding for the sake of it but rather find a way to scale operations.
> >
> > Well one solution, on the Ubuntu side of things, would be to run
> > origami with the cron setting on. This allows you to auto-start/stop
> > Folding at specific times of the day. The default cron setting
> > disables folding between 8am-5pm, but otherwise runs as usual. You
> > might give that a try..
> >
> > --
> > Christer Edwards
> > .: http://ubuntu-tutorials.com :.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately with this solution,  I do it at random times such as
> from 11am - 4am on some days,  or from 7pm - 1am depending on what I
> am and what my friends are doing.  Any other XP/Ubuntu solutions would
> be most welcome :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris.
> 
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Christopher,

This program is in the Ubuntu repository.

"cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a
process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to
control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu. It
does not act on the nice value or other priority stuff, but on the real
cpu usage.  Besides it is able to adapt itself to the overall system
load, dynamically and quickly."

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=992706

Dan