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Re: Throttle a process deliberately?

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Throttle a process deliberately?
Date 2017-03-21 13:37 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-03-21, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2017-03-21 09:07, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2017-03-21, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2017-03-21 08:08, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI: I later noticed while the app was running, with Handbrake churning
>>>> away using all 8 cores, that 3D-accelerated games exhibited a rather
>>>> annoying stutter. Normally on this Mac Pro, i can run Handbrake full blast
>>>> while playing intensive games with no noticeable significant stutter.
>>>> Quitting the app fixed that. YMMV.
>>>
>>> Interesting - I hope it doesn't affect the video editor.  Could be
>>> related to how it uses the GPU.
>>
>> AppPolice? Why would it use the GPU? Normally I can have a bunch of
>> miscellaneous apps running (Mail, Safari, TexEdit, BBEdit, iTunes, and
>> anything else I happen to have open at the time), with Handbrake running
>> and encoding pegging all 8 cores at ~100%, and be playing 3D-accelerated
>> games without any significant stutter on this Mac Pro. When I also run
>> AppPolice, I get a very noticeable stutter in 3D-accelerated apps.
>> Without AppPolice running, the weather is clear.
>
> Misunderstanding.  I'm wondering if your games use of the GPU is 
> affected by app police while HB is running throttled.

Could be. I suppose it also could be that it affects all running
applications, but simply isn't as noticeable in other less demanding
applications. The stutter I see in 3D accelerated games is a momentary
pause (~1 second) - just enough to negatively affect game play. And I
haven't played with it further to determine whether I can notice a
problem elsewhere. I probably won't ever bother to run it again on this
machine anyway.

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JR

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Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-17 19:04 -0400
  Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-17 23:29 +0000
    Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2017-03-18 14:58 +0000
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:33 -0400
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Calum <com.gmail@nospam.scottishwildcat> - 2017-03-19 20:56 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-19 21:39 +0000
          Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 07:51 -0400
            Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 12:08 +0000
              Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 08:38 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 13:07 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:16 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 13:37 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 11:09 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 17:08 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 14:54 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 20:54 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 18:40 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 23:01 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-22 19:33 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-23 05:22 +0000
          Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 07:53 -0400
            Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 12:03 +0000
              Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 08:39 -0400
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-21 13:08 +0000
                Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:25 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:32 -0400
    Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:31 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-03-18 17:49 -0400
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 11:09 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-03-18 23:26 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-19 17:21 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 09:35 -0400
      Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-03-19 17:04 +0000
        Re: Throttle a process deliberately? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-03-21 11:07 -0400

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