A little linux script.....

Just something I came up with last night.

This little script will:

• Make a 32MB RAMDisk. The size can be adjusted easily.
• Format it for ext2 filesystem
• Copy your seti WUs and program from wherever you specify to the ramdisk
• Start SETI (you must edit the script and set START_SETI to yes for this to happen) if you want.
• Shut that noisy hard disk up!
• when shutting down the SETI proggie will be stopped and the updated data copied back to where it came from

This will allow the hard drive to sleep while the system works from RAM: less noise, less heat, less power used.

***If you try this out please be aware that if it clobbers your 3 weeks of SETI work you can't go mad at me ***

seti_ramd.txt is attached....

Use it as follows:
mv seti_ramd.txt seti_ramd
chmod 777 seti_ramd
Then edit the options in the script.
Then start it by doing:
seti_ramd start
And use this to stop it:
seti_ramd stop

Have fun...

David

Very cool - this may be of use for the cluster project.

Feel free to use it for anything you want

If anyone else has ideas for Linux scripts they'd like for seti, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

David