From: "Manh Tuong Lewis Nguyen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Toward more ruly background apps Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2011 03:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <7a23bs$b8e$1@morgoth.sfu.ca> Organization: Simon Fraser University References: <2qhsc7d9ib953i1tnipa8jm7i25jbdfhpo@4ax.com> <56ltc755vbhq5p6lui1lal1io7b1f0g3q1@4ax.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u)) NNTP-Posting-Host: $$5donjiexhd7l88.newsgate.x-privat.org Lines: 128 X-Authenticated-User: $$pxx0usw2x6p$bd3o-suun-pml X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!newsfeed.x-privat.org!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10216 >From: Fistulina Hepatica >On 24/11/2011 6:36 PM, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:24:12 -0800, Patricia Shanahan >> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> >>> On Windows, bring up the Task Manager, Processes tab. Look for the >>> process you want to throttle. Right click it, and use "Set Priority" to >>> give it a below normal priority. >> >> That takes so long. Is there way to do it with a batch script or a >> tiny utility? > >The information at http://xona.com/2004/07/22.html (which another user >posted elsewhere in this thread) suggests how to start a process (such >as a JVM) with priority reduced from the outset. I'd guess that >/abovenormal, /high, and /realtime could also be used to start a process >with elevated priority (say, an I/O bound task you want to remain very >responsive). making a fist of a guess, "seamus" Derbyshire, is no enhancement of your plagiaristic dumma than a box of rocks subterfuge attempts. "seamus" Derbyshire records updated follow - names are missing as I aint so skilled as the "Murphy". -- A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane Murphies List applies: ".--- . ... ..- ..." 00101010 3k7e4intna <3k7e4intna@se0tfbhc.k3y0a.p0z> 3x7r4vagan <3x7r4vagan@fr0gsoup.x3l0n.c0m> 3x+r4v4g4n Alice Arne Kėndoj Boojum B1ll Gat3s A Canuck Canuck Cindy ClassCastException Colonel Panic Cthun Chad Carmichael dA.b0mB dark-zark-fark Deep Green (forgery) Deeyana De Lurker Derek Yancey Derek K. Wodenhouse dibs Extravagan Eight of Seventeen Ferdinand the -14th Fistulina Hepatica Four of Seventeen Fuschia, President-Elect of the Bright Purplish-Green Council George Arctos Greg Kelly Greg Sandoval Gheerax IV Handkea fumosa Hieronymus S. Freely Hydrocon Henry Harrison Henderson Heike Svensson Harry Greer Janie Zanie Jerry Gerrone John Kirkpatrick XVII Just Plain Nasty Katie Gerrolds Kevin Hadron kensi KitKat little kat Meerkats (forgery) Mister Scott Movable Hype Mrs. Danforth Mike Faramis Mamac Nancy 3 Nancy 4 (forgery) Nebulous Nightcrawler Nougat Surprise Novice Orange Green Purpleswandir Retahiv Oopsiscame Rhino RichB Seamus MacRae Series Expansion scuzwalla@gmail.com SFTV_troll SFTV_rantings Slartibartfast Some Guy Sulfide Eater Spock sproing Snicker-snack! Ten Blade Tim Thursday's Leftovers thoolen thoolen thoolen Unitary Matrix Willy Wonka Zapotec