Saul Luizaga wrote:
> clipka wrote:
>   > As I have recently developed a habit of keeping my computer on and
>> connected to the internet virtually all the time, and not running
>> renders on my QuadCore /all/ of the time, it might well be worth giving
>> the cores something to do while I'm just hacking up code, reading
>> newsgroups, or the like. But it's not like I've been in desperate search
>> for a way to keep my computer busy or contribute more to humanity: It
>> was just a spontaneous research inspired by your earlier posting,
>> somewhere between hacking in a shell script and waiting for it to spew
>> out results.
> 
> If you decide to participate and since you have 4 cores, you don't need
> even pause it, the default profile takes only 60% CPU time (you can
> change that editing the profile or creating another) from each core and
> each of the four WUs(Work Units) run on third plane (lowest CPU
> priority), so anything you do, even rendering, is ran first and foremost.

I have it set to use 100%. It runs at the lowest process priority anyway 
(highest nice level on Unix). I don't notice any slowdown while it's 
running.

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