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Thread: Want to set "task priority" to HIGH -- permanently. How? |
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Former Member
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I know that you can set the "task priority" to almost any level you want to (be very careful with "real time"!!) in the Task Manager by right-clicking on "WCGrid_Rosetta", and then setting a priority, but it's only good for that one "work unit." Once another molecule downloads, it defaults to LOW again.
Is there a way to set it permanently? (I have a dedicated device for this, and it might just as well be crunching as quickly as it can.) Thanks, JJ  |
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Former Member
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Hi JJ
----------------------------------------Rick Alther from Admin wrote quite a lot about this subject if you care to browse the forum as I think it was listed as CPU USAGE You can use the search box at the top of the screen to find answers to this post as I am sure it has been addressed before I will try and track down the post and advise you Regards <GRAHAM> [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 25, 2004 5:31:37 PM] |
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Former Member
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OK, Thanks!
JJ |
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I know that you can set the "task priority" to almost any level you want to (be very careful with "real time"!!) in the Task Manager by right-clicking on "WCGrid_Rosetta", and then setting a priority, but it's only good for that one "work unit." Once another molecule downloads, it defaults to LOW again. Is there a way to set it permanently? (I have a dedicated device for this, and it might just as well be crunching as quickly as it can.) Thanks, JJ The short answer is no, you can't. The long answer is that you could if you wrote a program to watch for this process and dynamically alter it's priority. It's not really worth it though. If you have a dedicated machine, it's already using just about as much CPU time as it can. The most you would be gaining is likely only a few seconds over the course of a workunit at the expense of your system becoming utterly unusable. As graham has mentioned, I've gone into the details of Windows priorities a few times already on these forums. Also, setting Rosetta to any other priority level other than Realtime has no effect. It will always have a priority level of 1. Setting it to Realtime is NOT recommended because of the problems listed above (in essence, your machine will be unusable).
Rick Alther
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GEORGE DOMINIC
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Post Count: 227 Status: Offline |
i suppose this means that its not really possible to run SETI or another grid project at the same time without owning 2 or more computers,personally if someone wrote the windows software to do this id be interested .registry mechanic it seems would add sum sort of flaw.
hears to hoping its merely a matter of time before that software becomes redily availible. |
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Alther
Former World Community Grid Tech United States of America Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Post Count: 414 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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i suppose this means that its not really possible to run SETI or another grid project at the same time without owning 2 or more computers,personally if someone wrote the windows software to do this id be interested .registry mechanic it seems would add sum sort of flaw. hears to hoping its merely a matter of time before that software becomes redily availible. You can run SETI on the same computer, but it will override WCG since it runs at a higher priority. This is answered in our Software FAQ.
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