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How to cap the CPU utilization a program uses?

JEDI

JEDI

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I have a program that uses 100% CPU utilization whenever i try to datamine info. the database is 500megs.

it's a custom program that i'm beta-testing.

is there a way in WinXP to limit the cpu utilization this program takes?
 
You might try it under a VMware virtual machine. You can get a 30-day trial of VMware workstation from their website. You can limit the memory available to the VM as a whole. Not sure how your app will run, but VMware rocks.

There are resource/workload management programs out there (Aurema Workload Manager/Armtech) but all that I've seen are geared towards the corporate market so I'm not sure how affordable or XP-compatible they are. I'm not aware of any consumer-grade resource management tools.
 
You can't limit CPU time like that. The 100% you see is an average over the last few secons, something is either running or it's not. You can set the priority low so that other apps will get favor when the scheduler picks the next process to run, but that's about it.
 
setting lower priority is only thing i can think of. good question if you ask me. kind of a science to mess with priorities too.
 
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