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.
Friday, 2 December 2011
ASUS Motherboard Utilities Self-Lower in Priority
Posted on 11:00 by Unknown
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