This should renice the cpu/gpu threads as a simple command:

for i in $(ps -C setiathome_x41g -o pid=); do renice -n 0 $i; done;

I guess it could be added to /etc/crontab to run every minute:
* * * * * root sleep 10; (for i in $(ps -C setiathome_x41g -o pid=); do renice -n 0 $i; done;)

Not sure how much benefit it really is, but might not be helpful on a production webserver/db :-)

In your windows tasks I see:

Priority of process raised successfully
Priority of worker thread raised successfully

In your linux tasks I do not.

It could be the linux app does record that information or the tasks are running lower priority.

From what I understand of a conversation I had at Einstein some years ago, Linux developers don't have access to any tool or setting equivalent to the 'worker thread priority' - they can only adjust priority at the process level. So much so that developers who cut their teeth on Linux code aren't even aware that Windows has threads which can be individually adjusted.

Also, BOINC should raise the process priority of a CUDA app on launch, so there shouldn't be any need for a message about the app adjusting itself later. So, I wouldn't worry about the non-equivalence of the messages, though it might well be something for T.A. to look at next time he's running each of the two OSs.

NB - you'd need to use something like Process Explorer to get the Windows thread priorities - Task Manager can only display/control the process priority.

Enzed, as you know, i am aware of some of the "lifter" experiments you were playing with and i know you have played with other experimental gravity science. So i know your familiar with the physics of the topic.

Enzed, this is just a heads up in advance of whats going to happen in the next few months. I made a monumental breakthrough in my gravity research. You know full well i have been researching this topic as long as you are.

Well it seems i have cracked the problem wide open. Its going to take me time to complete the experimental research so i can't say exactly when i will go public with my scientific findings,

Another heads up; The stuff about Podkletnov, Ning Li and Boeing discovering something. Its way off the mark!! Its only confusing people!

I'm not sure of what is being discussed here. A photon can be considered to be a disturbance in the Electro-magnetic makeup of free space. It can also be characterized as an electro-magnetic wave and a particle to boot. Gravity is a disturbance in the fabric of space (warpage). We might also like to think of a "graviton" and I am also sure that we will find gravitational waves which will be ripples in space/time.

As for spacecraft propulsion: Gravity from the large planets (so to speak) has been used to accelerate our wandering spacecraft probes.

If you say "anti-gravity" does one mean levitation or the expansion that seems to exist by a force inherent in the vacuum which is expanding our universe. I would suggest that we give this putative force a new name.

I also presume that the idea behind this thread is to somehow harness this force ( or gravity or electromagnetism) for use in propulsion. For my money the only appealing pursuit of these concepts would be along the lines of being able to cross magnetic lines of flux--so you could control the direction of thrust. Of course the laws of physics stand in the way and I don't think that they will go away even if we understand more and more about the makeup of our existence.

Some really interesting responses here:) Some people think we will crack the gravity problem, and others are less optimistic.

See if you believe in UFO's, then you would have to agree that the aliens that are visiting us have already found a way to defy gravity or use it to propel their spacecraft. I have never been a big fan or believer in UFO's, i need proof, Concrete proof! So if any one single UFO citing in the whole history of mankind was real, then other intelligent life does exist and anti-gravity IS possible! So who do you believe?

Personally, based on my own research, i'm willing to bet we will see anti-gravity within less than 2 years. I can't really say why i'm so optimistic but i am quite sure that everyone who has posted to this thread will witness anti-gravity within 2 years. And maybe they will experience anti-gravity themselves within about 4 to 6 years.

I'm very confident!......:) See that spaceship in my signature image....... that will be me flying in earth orbit instead of a pint of guinness very shortly! :)

John.

If its physically big enough and it as it blows and also creates a back pressure wave, it may turn into a black hole...

That would be trouble for the neighbourhood.. including earth.

It's nearly 600ly away...a black hole there wouldn't affect us one bit.

But we still have a problem with light speed
What if space is not uniform in structure, if so then the speed will differ depending on the "density/permeability/local properties" of the space it travels through. ...

That's a very good point. Is our electromagnetic view of the universe distorted by the mass and the medium through which we are viewing?

All a sort of more subtle combination of distortions due to gravitational lensing, universe expansion and the material through which we are squinting?

Is there enough gravitation that we would be able to see ourselves if we had been there (or would be there) by the time the light path had looped around?

(Conditionals in time are a good source of a linguistic headache. Note the musings of Douglas Adams when faced with a similar conundrum!)

Keep searchin'!
Martin


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See:

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Chapter 15) - Douglas Adams

Time Travelling Grammar

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