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Running ML inference in CPU with real time priority takes longer than default priority

I was wondering if setting up realtime priority would help whisper.cpp to run faster, but not only it doesn't run any faster, it runs substantially slower. I'm running it using sudo chrt -r 99 ... ...
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How does VirtualBox handle thread priority in the guest?

Assume a scenario in which a VirtualBox VM is running a multi-threaded app which is maxing out all available CPU cores. However, the threads run at low priority, thus if anything else were to run on ...
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How to make All Chrome Threads Run High CPU Priority?

Run normally, all Chrome processes have normal priority. The various threads represent various tabs, extensions, etc. But, then i launch chrome with high CPU priority. I'm using: cmd.exe /c start "...
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Why some processes cannot change CPU priority?

I'm on older machine and setting priority to Above Normal or High helps to improve performance for certain applications. Like e.g. for games. I use System Explorer to set priority and set to ...
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Why is VLC Player unable to keep up with decoding a video when another program is using CPU, even though it's low priority?

I'm running ffmpeg on Windows 7 to re-encode some videos to x265. While it's running I want to watch some other videos in VLC Player (also x265-encoded, so decoding them takes a lot of CPU, too). I ...
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Reactivate Dormant Processes in Windows7

I have a very computationally intensive program (which I wrote in python) and starting two days ago I ran 6 copies of it in parallel (using 6 Cygwin terminals on a Mac Book Pro running Windows7 in ...
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A process CPU usage doesn't change for different priority

I wrote an infinite loop in python to print No! in the output. while True: print("No!") When I execute it, I see its process (pythonw.exe) in Windows-Task-Manager that uses 60% of the CPU. I did ...
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Program broke after changing its process priority?

I just want to know how to recover from the changes that I made on a particular program which used to work just fine but after I changed it's priority from normal to high it's no longer working. To ...
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