[daip] AIPS taking control

[Glenn Morrison]

Hi Eric,

It seems that with RedHat Enterprise w3, you must set BADDISK=swap disk 
otherwise AIPS can really slowdown/stop any desktop activity if running 
a cpu intensive AIPS task.

Having set BADDISK to my swap disk, I'm running IMAGR now on about 60hrs 
of combined A&B array uv data and I have no problems.

--Glenn

Eric Greisen wrote:

>Glenn Morrison writes:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > On my linux box (RH Enterprise: 2x3.2GHz, ram=2.5GB, disk=3x147GB), when 
> > I run AIPS's task UVSUB or CALIB, the windowing of RH stops (I can still 
> > ssh into and do things) but the resources are not completely used: Ex. 
> > of top:
> > 
>
>Does this mean that a top running in another window or a clock in
>another icon/window stops?  Or just that KDE no longer lets you mess
>with windows on the screen?  Or what?
>
>Needless to say it should not stop anything.  Is your aips data disk
>on the same disk as the swap?
>
>Or is there some real worry about Enterprise?  We have not heard about
>this from anyone else but..  Are you data on an IDE disk or scsi?
>
>ERic Greisen
>  
>