KWSN Orbiting Fortress

[Mildew]

I've noticed that the FaH client don't behave very well when sharing the processor. I have changed the advanced setting from Idle to Low, but the client appears to be running at Normal priority.

If I open the task manager, the process is logged as having priority Low.
I try to change it to Normal and back to Low, but nothing happens, it's still running at Normal priority...

Any one else noticed this? Would it help to change the settings back to Idle? (trying that would probably take a lot shorter time than writing all this, but I'm too lazy, and I'm behind on my post-count )
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[alpha_fruit]

I don't know what you are talking about, how do you check this idle/low you are speaking of? I only run FAH and never had a problem lately with either machine.
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[Mildew]

Right...

That's very helpful.

Thank you.


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[Mr. Snrub]

I've never had a problem with FaH either.

[Sir Furry Mark]

Can't say I've noticed a problem - at it's normal idle priority it usually yields well to other applications/projects. The exception to this is just after it starts, when it seems to do some sort of benchmarking/consistency checking at a higher priority for a minute or two...

Ni!
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[Mildew]

Now I have a similar problem, but with the SoB client...

The setting is for Idle, but the task manager claims it is set to normal.
Trying to force SoB down ti Low priority in the task manager has no result.
The only way to run Majestic-12 on the same machine is to set that one to Higher than normal priority.

This is really weird, because it was working fine in the beginning, and then this problem just appeared.
Maybe it's my OS that's screwed...
Bill is back with a vengeance!
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[Sir Furry Mark]

Bizarre - my experience is that Majestic-12 and SoB run well together. If anything Majestic is the one that takes over (when it is compressing a barrel just before uploading).

Windows actually has 32 different priority levels (from 0 to 31, where 31 is the highest). Windows itself can adjust priorities up or down by 2 points to rebalance the system.

The official names map as follows:

low = 4
belownormal = 6
normal = 8
high = 13
realtime = 24

If the OS chooses to rebalance, a low priority and a normal priority task can end up running at the same level!

I know that SoB trounces D2OL/TSC for CPU use, so maybe it is using an intermediate priority value as the task base priority?

[Grawlfang]