How to load Albet w/ higher priority?
4 Jun 2006 21:32:45 UTC
Topic 191323
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The albert science app is always loaded with a 'low' priority and I was wondering how to load it with a higher one. I can set its priority higher in task manager but when the next WU is started its priority returns to 'low'.
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How to load Albet w/ higher priority?
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afaik you can't do this automatically, nor should you be doing it at all. Always running background processes should be at low priority because it doesn't matter if they get 92% of the CPU one second and 99 the next N instead of 98% for 8sec and 99 for the next N-7. Media playback, gui updates, and if you press hard enough core OS functions will have problems and ultimately blow up if starved sufficiently, and as long as you don't starve them to the point that they break will ultimately use the same ammount of CPUtime regardless.
If you don't believe me, set mediaplayer to low priority all your albert threads to high and try playing an mpeg. If you set them to realtime instead of high, you'll lock up the system and can either pull the network plug and wait until your WU cache is empty (maybe, asuming the OS itself doesn't get strangled to death instead of just total nonresponsiveness), or reboot the PC.
RE: The albert science app
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Right click the icon, "My Computer", and left click "Properties". This get's you into "System Properties". There left click "Advanced", left click "Settings", and under "Performance", left click "Advanced".
There, activate "Background Services", under "Processor Scheduling", and "System Cache", under "Memory Usage", and left click "OK", and reboot.
This may help the processing indirectly.
Thanks for the tips
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Thanks for the tips guys.
@DanNeely
I was only intending on setting the priority to 'normal', and only when I'm asleep and have no foreground programs running. Your first point seems quite true, the increase in priority will probably yield and unnoticeable (if any) improvement in performance.
@GoHack
While that may increase Albert’s priority it will also do the same for every other background service running, possibly having an adverse effect on performance.
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
RE: Thanks for the tips
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actaully this one is a good idea. While it apparently wasn't MSes intent, this setting makes the system multitask better and should be choosen for all PCs.