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Re: Toward more ruly background apps

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On 11/24/2011 05:44 AM, Roedy Green wrote:
> I usually have at least one active background task going, e.g. defrag,
> build, search and replace script, indexing, backup, Jet compile,
> program load, source code tidy, email fetch, FTP upload, macro
> expansion to regenerate my website ....
>
> The problem is these often interfere with my foreground work.  I hit a
> key and nothing happens for several seconds. I find it quite hard to
> type word without the instant visual feedback.
>
> The background task may be hogging the CPU or the disk.  Back in the
> 60s I learned about what OS's were supposed to do to ameliorate this,
> giving higher priority to i/o bound tasks and higher priority to tasks
> a human was sitting there waiting for.
>
> I am using Windows 7 on a dual CPU which was orders of magnitude
> resources to play with that the computers of that day, but it does not
> seem to be doing all that well.
>
> So some questions:
>
> 1. Is there anything I can do to make my OWN background Java apps
> better behaved, to notice disk or CPU is tight and back off? or lower
> their priority to CPU or disk?
>
> 2. Is there anything I can do to configure some sort of allocation of
> the CPU and disk where various combos of app are running?
>
> 3. Is there anything I can do quickly when my computer is sluggish to
> throttle but not kill the culprit?
>
> 4. Do Linux people fare any better?  I imagine most windows users have
> programs in the background, but they would nearly always be idle. This
> problem is likely not high on the MS priority list.

Unix/Linux has nice.

OpenVMS has set process/priority

Windows has solitaire.

(Couldn't resist that)

Try looking at http://xona.com/2004/07/22.html

Jeff Coffield

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Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-24 05:44 -0800
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps Silvio Bierman <silvio@moc.com> - 2011-11-24 16:27 +0100
    Re: Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-24 08:41 -0800
      Re: Toward more ruly background apps Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-11-24 09:18 -0800
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps "Jeffrey H. Coffield" <jeffrey@digitalsynergyinc.com> - 2011-11-24 07:34 -0800
    Re: Toward more ruly background apps Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> - 2011-11-24 17:12 +0100
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-24 09:24 -0800
    Re: Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-24 15:36 -0800
      Re: Toward more ruly background apps Fistulina Hepatica <f.hep3@spore.dispersal.org> - 2011-11-24 22:29 -0500
        Re: Toward more ruly background apps "Manh Tuong Lewis Nguyen" <matln@sfu.ca> - 2011-11-25 03:01 +0000
          Re: Toward more ruly background apps thoolen <tholen01@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 01:19 -0800
        Re: Toward more ruly background apps Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-29 16:47 -0800
  Re: Toward more ruly background apps Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-24 21:46 -0500

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