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Simple OSX Question
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As the title says a simple question.
Can the OSX Seti client run & crunch while my Mac is in Sleep Mode?
If the answer is yes, will it 'jump into life' unexpectedly?
If the answer to that is No then my 350mhz box will happily spend most of it's time (from midnight to aprox 5pm, when I am ether sleeping or at work) crunching Seti for Team MacNN.
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I don't actually know the answer in X, but the answer is "yes" in OS 9. However, it is not worth it either way.
The system shuts most of the way down during sleep, in OS 9 you would be crunching somewhere between 1-5% of normal speed. If Seti can still crunch in X while the system is asleep, you would get the same 1-5%.
My G4 350 crunches 24/7. You get used to the fan noise after a while, so you can sleep anyway. 
[ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: reader50 ]
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SETI can crunch very, very slowly in sleep mode. I would not suggest bothering. Either pay for the extra electricty or don't bother with SETI>
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There is no reason to run it in sleep mode.
In sleep mode the processor is pretty much shut off.
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Ah well That's all I wanted to know. It's not a case of using the extra electric (a computer without a monitor uses very little anyway). It's the noise, My Mac is in my bedroom, and when I sometimes do a overnight 3D render the fan makes it hard fo me to get to sleep.
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