find-a-drug process priority

[eklass]

i'm almost 100% sure that fina-a-drug is running at normal priority insteade of low priority

the reason i say this is when i manualyl set it to below normal in xp, everything seems to run smoother (ie, outlook, winamp, etc)

any easy way to get it to start up with low priority? i was gonna fool arount with the start command, but then i noticied the startup file is a .lgo file. what's up? cna anyone give me some tips. i don't mind running FAD all the time, but i don't want it stealing cycles when i need them. thanks

 

[beatle]

I wish I were home right now so I could check things out on my FAD machines. I haven't noticed any slowdown with it. When you open task manager and check the process priority of think.exe, what is it? Normal?

 

[eklass]

*nod*

i'm in a discussion over at the find-a-drug forums with it. they insist that the child proccesses, which are the computational processes run at idle 1/1 priority. whatever. i know my system, and i know when something's wrong.

for the full transcript, linkage is provided http://forum.find-a-drug.com/viewtopic.php?t=1487

it boils down to i can fix most of my problems if i use firedaemon http://www.dwam.net/docs/firedaemon/ to run think as a service at idle priority (thus ensuring it will run when no one is logged in and it runs at the specified priority)

um... yeah... 🙂

 

[beatle]

Sounds like a mess over there. 🙂 Have you tried starting think.exe by itself from the command line with the low-priority flags? I ended up doing it this way as windows kept refusing to "run" think.lgo.