Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of CPUShare Tweet

Timestamp:

04/05/2008 12:54:08 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Sam Hocevar

Comment:

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CPUShare

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 Then download our [/attachment/wiki/CPUShare/libcaca-sell.cpu?format=raw sell order] and put it in `/etc/cpushare/`. If your machine has several CPUs, you can place several copies of the same file in `/etc/cpushare/`, just make sure their names end in `.cpu`.
 
-If you are not using Debian or Ubuntu, well, good luck. Honestly, CPUShare is one of the most difficult pieces of software I have ever seen. Good luck.
+Finally, simply run `/etc/init.d/cpushare start` and the CPUShare daemons will start.
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+If you are not using Debian or Ubuntu, well, good luck. CPUShare is one of the most unfriendly pieces of software I have ever seen.
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+== What happens exactly? ==
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+ Your machine's idle CPU cycles will be available on the CPUShare platform. The CPUShare daemons run at a very low priority (`nice -19` by default) but you can stop the daemon at any time if the impact on your system is too important.
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+There is no way to know whether your CPU will be always used for libcaca projects. However, because you use our `.cpu` file, the CPUCoins earned by running CPUShare software will be credited to the libcaca project's account. We will in turn use these CPUCoins to buy CPU cycles on other machines; maybe yours, maybe not.
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+If you do not like giving CPUCoins directly to the libcaca project, you can create your own `.cpu` file by creating an account on [http://www.cpushare.com/ cpushare.com] and [https://www.cpushare.com/orders/ creating a new sell order].