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Old 05-11-2006, 09:23 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally posted by joshd
does it need to be closed in a certain way?

can i just leave for school, and have the system autoshut down (using cmd) in 2 hours or so??

also, does it use much bandwidth?
Doesn't seem like it needs any special shut down process. Probably better when it exits cleanly, as opposed to being killed. Not a big deal, so your shutdown command should be no problem.

It only uses bandwidth to upload a completed WU or download a new one, so it rarely uses any at all (WUs, depending on their sizes, can take a long time to finish). It's more of a CPU usage thing. You don't even have to be always online for it to actually process stuff.
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