Before I went to bed last night at 6am EST, I launched v3.84.5 final and v3.85.2 beta. The new final fixes some things that don't matter much to anyone. The new beta, OTH, has some cool new features and enhancements. I am going to fully describe them later. Remember, this new beta series is the code base evolution for v4. It is still early, but rapidly progressing.The beta release has been 'pushed' out via the update checker.The new final release (v3.84.5) will be pushed out via the update checker tomorrow.Now, after an extremely long period of...
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Friday, 28 May 2010
I see today a new review of Process Lasso has popped up. See http://barracudanetworkblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wrangle-up-your-computer-with-process.htmlI'll soon add this one to the product page, with the others. My many thanks go to the author for taking the time to review Process Lasso so thoroughly in a real world environment ...
Two in one post. Yes, here at Bitsum we're going Green by conserving bandwidth ;). Of course, that's just a joke and I fully support the Green movement in every way.Process Icon Memory UseProcess icons in the 'All processes' tab account for approximately 50% of the private virtual memory Process Lasso's GUI utilizes. I've always offered the option to turn these icons off, for the especially RAM conscious - and you can, of course, close the whole GUI.However, in this new beta series I'm working on some optimizations to the icon code that will reduce...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
The previous CPU Eater demo I had to take a heavy handed approach to demonstrating the problem because each system is different. Often, the demonstration was therefore overly aggressive. With this new CPU Eater demo, you can set just how many threads to create and at what CPU affinity. This allows you to see exactly how susceptible you are to the critical scheduler problem Process Lasso's ProBalance addresses. You will be surprised how little it...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
This quick beta release cleans up v3.85.0 beta and adds a maximum CPU frequency to the status bar. Additionally, some single and multiple selection process context menu items have been moved around. I'm now beginning work on several major additions and improvements.So far the change log is:Addition.Core: Added feature to not enforce ProBalance if system has been idle X minutesAddition.GUI: Added facilitating ProBalanace settings for new feature to disable ProBalance when PC idle!-- Addition.GUI: Added active CPU frequency to status bar-->Addition.GUI:...
As I mentioned, new finals of v3 will come as I back-port minor changes from the new beta series and updated translations. This new very minor update makes the following little tweaks:[.4]Change.GUI: Remove new UAC shield icon from 'show processes of all users' so as to not hide the check indicating this setting's state[.4]Change.GUI: Updated French translation[.4]Change.GUI: Updated Italian translationThis is not an important update, so is not being pushed through the update check...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
v3.85.0 beta was released yesterday. This will kick off a new beta series, which will be a long one ending up at version 4. Interim v3 final releases will appear periodically with various back-ports, but the dev branch will not go final until v4.Amongst numerous changes, there is a feature that simply disables ProBalance while you are away from your PC. When you're back, ProBalance is re-engaged. Makes sense, eh? This new option is disabled...
Monday, 24 May 2010
As long time users know, my version numbering system is a bit non-standard. I also do highly incremental product releases, to the dismay of some who would prefer fewer releases. Lastly, I develop in parallel - always having a stable and beta/dev branch. That way I can back-port fixes and small adjustments to the last stable version at any time.Version 4 will be rolled out first as a series of ever-escalating v3 beta versions. Beta versions are odd numbers, such as v3.85 beta. The least significant digit after the '.' does not count (e.g. 3.84.4...
Over the next few weeks I'll be introducing enhancements coming in the new version 4. I'll save the best for last. So, first let's start with the CPU Eater. I've revamped (and the backing TestLasso) to allow greater control over the number of threads created, and the CPU affinity that the test should run on. I've also clarified the description, so that people realize the actual CPU eating is done in a background process at normal priority (TestLasso.exe,...
Saturday, 22 May 2010
A couple weeks ago the management of the site Giveaway of the Day contacted me, inquiring about offering Process Lasso Pro for free during a 24 hour period. Users would be required to activate the software within that 24 hour period, and could not re-activate it again. In other words, after an uninstall, they would have to buy the product. I did later decide to change their usual policy and allow for all free users to get minor updates to v3, as it seems only fair.In complete honesty, version 4 isn't far off anyway (though any critical fixes...
Thursday, 20 May 2010
DISCLAIMER: I am perpetually one week away from financial disaster, so listen to my advice at your own risk, lol. I am also only 32 years of age, so certainly don't know everything. I do have a unique experience, working so hard to remain independent.I hate whining, and don't intend to do it here. However, there are some hurdles to being an independent developer, and I'd like to introduce people to some of those. Perhaps my personal ways of dealing with them will help some burgeoning developer.There is all sorts of crapware out there which your...
Sunday, 16 May 2010
I wanted to take a minute to issue yet another warning about these gimmicky process optimization utilities that do nothing more than set the foreground process priority class to High. You may say, "well, that seems reasonable", but the truth is that it is NOT effective and can be VERY dangerous. That is why foreground boosting is disabled in Process Lasso by default.The Windows Scheduler already gives foreground threads higher precedence by giving them longer time slices. You do not want to give them a higher priority because this can lead to starvation...
Sunday, 9 May 2010
I made a quick interim refresh of v3.84.2, pending the next official final version, and the new v4 alpha series that is being developed in parallel. This quick refresh simply updates the French translation and decreases the height of the second InstallHelper configuration dialog to better accommodate small NetBook screens. The height of that dialog was increased in v3.84 with the addition of the date/time format selecti...
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Sometimes its hard to describe to users just how frequent software errors that result in infinite 'CPU eating' loops are. Today I saw an example, so figured I'd take a screenshot and elaborate.Yesterday I used my HP F335 All-in-one printer to scan a couple documents. Wouldn't you know, keeping with the tradition of poorly crafted printer drivers and applications, today I see the HPZ12 service has a thread stuck in an infinite loop and eating away...
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Process Lasso v3.84.2 has been released, and is a very minor update. In fact, I'm not even pushing it out to people via the update check mechanism. If you already have v3.84.1, there isn't a good reason to upgrade unless you just want to. If you have the original v3.84, or an earlier build, upgrading is recommended (and you will be notified of the update).The primary change is a cosmetic one in the Active Processes tab. The CPU utilization graphs now instantly refresh when the sort column or direction is changed by the user via clicking on a column...
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