noticeable responsiveness and performance improvement with Process Lasso

[soccerballtux]

I've been experimenting with Process Lasso, a service+GUI that helps balance your multitasking, frees cores, and prioritizes processes that have current focus.

It's made a sizeable improvement in multitasking performance, both in Chrome when opening new tabs, and in general page rendering speed.

It does a few things, but mainly manages core parking dynamically for you to eliminate context switch penalties, and restrains processes that are monopolizing resources. This latter one is probably why Chrome is so much more responsive during omnibox result loading.

anyways I downloaded it a year ago and have finally gotten around to installing and configuring it. I'm pretty happy with the results. FYI:

https://bitsum.com/processlasso/

 

[.vodka]

Very useful if you're still rocking a single core first gen Atom netbook somewhere.

 

[soccerballtux]

Very useful if you're still rocking a single core first gen Atom netbook somewhere.

I noticed quite an improvement even on my FX

 

[Burpo]

I've been using Outertech's Cacheman for years.. Similar and with a full set of utilities built in.

New version is out tom include Broadwell-U & AMD Carizzo (still using the old tho)..

http://download.cnet.com/Cacheman/3000-20_4-10018600.html

 

[escrow4]

ROFL, so a heavily overclocked FX can't run Chrome responsively? Something my G1850 Celeron can?

 

[TheELF]

ROFL, so a heavily overclocked FX can't run Chrome responsively? Something my G1850 Celeron can?

It's not about cores,if a program that can use a lot of cores starts with high priority then it will screw with your cpu no matter how many or few cores you have.
If you load something up that will momentarily fill up both your cores, while browsing,then you will get a momentary freeze.
No way around it except for regulating the priorities.

I'm using process tamer myself for a while now,it is completely free and only lowers priorities,but that's all you need.