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

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

Why is process priority not fundamental to modern operating systems?

because they are designed and built entirely by mongs. it's a fact.

[edwards.livejournal.com]

Is that like the sort of thing I was ranting about? So pressing a media key brings up my preferred media player instead of sodding WMP?

[alienfox.livejournal.com]

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

Please! My Mum's in an awful mood and I think some Scott throbber would really sort out the mood in this house. xxx

[aoakley.livejournal.com]

Um, nice (http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=n/nice).

You can even re-nice (http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=r/renice) running processes to a new higher or lower priority part-way through their run.

Available without having to buy anything. If you must insist on paying for, or pirating, your operating system, you can instead do CTRL-ALT-DEL, Task Manager, Processes, right-click a process, Set Priority, which does a half-assed job of doing, for money, what my OS does for free.

[glensc.livejournal.com]

My mother has asked me to tell you to buy a Mac, dad's got the camera batteries charge and I've come up with a punning title "Petit MortGarcon".

Though possibly more helpfully, can't you alter the shortcut which launch the programs to include run prioity levels?

[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!

[gaius-octavian.livejournal.com]

IIRC Windows already has a tweak like this built in, you can tell it you want priority to foreground apps or to background services. Don't remember which control panel it's in tho'.

The "real" Unixes (Solaris, AIX, HPUX) handle this a lot more cleverly, I've done a lot of this sort of thing with Solaris 10 managing complex workloads and it's pretty slick once you've scripted it.

[excy.livejournal.com]

Priority control - freeware, here:
http://optionalreaction.com/software/PriorityControl_STATIC/

Or the shareware, Prio - Priority Saver:
http://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

Your google search powers are weak young one.

[crm.livejournal.com]

actual proper process prioritisation takes up too much headroom.*
mac is unix and thus has the 'nice' command, but im not sure how to use it right.

buy more ram?


* i red about it in 'the fundimental characteristcis of operating systems' at secondry school as my classmates spat on me. most of them are now dead or in jail and i know about process priorities. yay.