Thought

[deathboy]

Why is process priority not fundamental to modern operating systems?

Everyone knows which programs they care more about.

Give us a simple handle to say "this thing first, quickest, best / that thing... feh. later. when it's ready."

Is there something like Process Explorer that will remember the process priority I like for a program?

If you say "buy a mac", I will literally fuck your parents.

I don't even know if OS-X does that, I'm just eager for some MILF action.

Comments

[frostedmessiah.livejournal.com]

I'm of the opinion that any API that gives you the ability to demand process priority is lying.

Kind of like how I never believe that if I ask for a thread to become daemonised on windows, it will actually do as I say.

Fuck it, I wouldn't trust windows to tell me the truth even if I threatened it with pokings from an abnormally heated soldering iron.

For example: Open the regular task manager and ask it to end a program that isn't responding, and marvel in the glory of the fact that windows will completely ignore your request.

Process Explorer is awesome though... If it weren't for that nifty bit of software, I would have never located and redirected/removed all the pieces of software that my employer put on my machine at work to "make sure I was being productive".

Currently, McAfee ePolicy Agent is set to enforce global system policies as dictated by the head of Systems every 525,600 minutes, instead of the usual 10.

YOUR MOVE, CTO!

[aliasrob.livejournal.com]

Open the regular task manager and ask it to end a program that isn't responding, and marvel in the glory of the fact that windows will completely ignore your request.

Usually this is because there's a bunch of sub process that have died or are waiting to exit. End process tree is your friend here.