cpu controler prog

[unjulation]

I was chating to a mate who knows way more about computers then little old me and he was on about programs that you can set the % of cpu usage to perticular progs youve got on your hard drive, anyone come across them? do the work without makeing your system unstable? anyone got any links?

[robotfunk]

I have not heard of external apps that do this.
On the mac you can set a "CPU Hog" value for each app.
on NT/win2k/XP you can choose from 5 values for each process ..
you can change from 'normal' to 'fast' or 'realtime'
I havent noticed much improvement by changing a process to 'fast' but I haven't measured it either.
Setting a process to 'realtime' just locked up my computer on almost every process I tried it on.

you can just press control alt delete and tab to the process manager where you can change these settings.

[Meierhans]

This variable only say which program is prefered. If there is no other program that takes sources, its practically no difference.

[infopocalypse]

You can use quotas, but they're complicated.