Windows black magic

[memnus]

What I need:

Some way to tell Windows either, "This program should be limited to 90% CPU usage, so other programs can have some too," or, "This program should be willing to give up CPU usage to anything else that wants it, since other things will give it back."

Open to suggestions. Task Manager has an option to change a program's priority, but I don't trust it not to fuck me royally.

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Comments

[kushali.livejournal.com]

Changing a process' priority generally doesn't fuck you over if you know what the process does. I'd google who ever is stealing your CPU time and figure out if you can safely lower its priority. I don't know how long that setting is in effect and I don't know how often you reboot.

I have to do similar things with an open-source program I run that eats memory like chocolate. Stupid thing thinks it gets all the memory and CPU, I've yet to come up with a good way to sandbox the damn thing consistently, although lower the priority helps a lot. Let me know if you find anything good.