[conspire] idle computer

[Tony Godshall]

...
>  nohup ./seti &
>
> ...then change that to
>
>  nohup nice ./seti &
>
> The 'nice' utility, part of GNU coreutils, accepts numerical values for
> additional niceness (reduced runtime priority) to assign to tasks at the
> time they start up.  I would guess this information is passed in some
> fashion as a request to the kernel's scheduler.
>
> 'nice' defaults to a +10 adjustment, i.e., just 'nice' is the same as
> 'nice -n 10'.
...

ionice -c3 is good too... it helps in cases where the process does
heavy io with low CPU use (like copying files)

apt-get install ionice