Questions tagged [priority]
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Pulseaudio high CPU usage
Is it normal that the pulseaudio process has sometimes a CPU usage of ~40%, even without playing audio? The process seems to run in realtime-priority, is that the cause of the problem?
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Is it possible to set USB device priority?
I am using Windows 10 Pro and bought a Fresco Logic 2000 USB to HDMI adapter. It works but when playing videos on the screen attached with USB it makes my mouse and keyboard slow down and be jumpy ...
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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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Is process priority periodically recalculated by OS?
I have a question regarding win-7 schedule and process priority.
The scenario is: I have a process running, initially in priority "Normal"
I find this process to be often reduced to Background (Low ...
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4G LTE is prioritized over LAN/Ethernet
I have an issue with my laptop and internet connections.
In my system, if there is no WiFi, the system prioritizes cellular broadband instead of ethernet. As soon as I connect WiFi, LAN is prioritized....
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Unable to have Windows give priority to a specific network adapter
We have a Windows 7 PC with 3 network adapters (2 physical and 1 virtual):
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192....
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Prioritised outgoing emails using Exim
Our outgoing email queue uses Exim (on Centos) and is used both for sending bulk batches of email to clients and sending authentication keys, eg as part of the forgotten password routine. On some ...
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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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Windows 10 I/O causes audio hiccups
Basically, when heavy I/O is happening it causes audio to break up and it's really annoying during conference calls. Even just loading a more demanding webpage is enough to do this, the other day I ...
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Change default priority for an exe (every time the program is launched)
I have a big image manipulation program that runs slow and that I am used to run with no other apps. I want to permanently set the exe to run at a higher priority.
I could run it through a batch file ...
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How to do a real-time task with a high-load background task in Linux?
I've started recording of sound (minor CPU, memory and IO load) as
schedtool -R -p 2 -e arecord -f cd > qqq5.wav
And perform large compilation (high CPU load + high memory load + high IO load) as ...
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how to prioritize windows process to WSL tasks?
I have a Windows OS, with a WSL installed. I am running some computation heavy processes in WSL, written in Fortran, submit using nohup, which usually takes 10 hours to complete a task.
I wanted to ...
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Passing User Input to EXE using "Start" and set priority
I have a batch file input.bat I use to start an executable and pass in user input like so:
foo.exe < userInput.txt
I would like to run foo.exe in a high priority mode, which I can successfully do ...
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Windows 10 priotize program in bandwidth usage over windows updates
there are many questions on different forums asking whether one could turn off automatic Windows updates etc.
But I want my Windows to automatically download Updates etc.
What I don't want is these ...
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How may one reduce the impact of a WSL2 session on the performance of its Windows host?
I have been running some computationally-intensive processes (compiling and linking large programs) in WSL2 on Windows 10 Pro (build 19041.746), and doing so noticably slows down graphical Windows ...
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