Process Lasso v5.1.0.27 final

v5.1.0.27 final

Downloads:

Workstation/Home/Standard:
32-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/prolasso.zip
64-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/prolasso64.zip

Server Edition:
32-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/server/prolasso.zip
64-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/server/prolasso64.zip

Changes:

• [.27]Fix.GUI: Fixed failure in unchecking process watchdog rules via the context menu.
• [.27]Fix.GUI: Fixed disabled 'Change CPU affinity during restraint' ProBalance menu option
• [.27]Fix.Core: Fixed theoretical issue where certain services could be lowered in priority class by ProBalance even if services were set to be excluded (the default)
• [.27]Change.Core: First step of a series of ProBalance adjustments planned (incrementally being phased in for maximal safety)
• [.27]Addition.Core: Added 'any' memory metric for watchdog options
• [.27]Addition.GUI: Added UI (dialog) support for 'any' memory metric for memory watchdog actions
• [.27]Addition.GUI: Added new mechanism to check to see if you are using the latest recommended defaults (only asks once per change of the defaults, unless you tick 'do not ask me again')
• [.27]Change.GUI: New process watchdog memory rules now are created with default of 'Any Metric'
• [.27]Change.All: Adjusted ProBalance defaults for better system-specific auto-tuning
• [.27]Change.GUI: Several languages updated

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ASUS Motherboard Utilities Self-Lower in Priority

I was updating my ASUS motherboard's included software suite of useful and useless utilities, and found that they all behaved 'nicely'. What I mean is that the resident (always running) ones lowered their priority class to Below Normal when not active. Yes, very reminiscent of Process Lasso's ProBalance. Could it be, that ProBalance is affecting the design decisions developers make? It is possible. After all, Google set the example in Chrome, with it lowering the priority class of its forked processes (tabs).

If more software made a conscious effort to set its own process priority class and/or individual thread priorities, then perhaps the PC would be a better environment. That is why Process Lasso ignores (by default) processes with non-normal priority classes. It assumes they have been adjusted by the program itself, the user, or a third-party application and so shouldn't be changed. Thread priorities, of course, remain relative to the process priority class, thus their relation to each other is not changed when the priority class is adjusted.

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Process Lasso v5.1.0.26 final

v5.1.0.26 final

Downloads:

Workstation/Home/Standard:
32-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/prolasso.zip
64-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/prolasso64.zip

Server Edition:
32-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/server/prolasso.zip
64-bit: http://www.bitsum.com/files/server/prolasso64.zip

Changes:

• [.26]Change.GUI: New German graph legend
• [.26]Change.GUI: German out of date warning removed
• [.26]Change.GUI: Russian out of date warning removed (an oversight, as it was/is up to date)
• [.26]Change.GUI: Updated Traditional Chinese
• [.26]Change.GUI: Updated Italian
• [.26]Change.GUI: Updated Polish
• [.26]Change.GUI: Updated Finnish
• [.26]Change.Core: Default ProBalance parameters tweaked a little for higher end systems (more mods under testing)

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