'Process Lasso', I love you! (Positive rant)

[VirtualLarry]

Well, I've heard of the program for a long time, never really had much reason to use it, until today.

I've been doing some mining on my R5 3600, and unlike the CPU mining on my R5 1600, which only utilized 8 out of 12 threads, this one slams all 12 threads (probably due to larger L3 cache memory capacity). I also run Firefox Nightly, with a humungo set of tabs (over 100). I have 16GB of DDR4-3600 RAM in this PC as well.

When opening new tab links, when mining, it can take nearly a full minute for the tab to load, because it's competing for CPU time with 12 threads / 100% CPU usage from the mining app.

I finally thought, "hey, maybe Process Lasso can help me", and it did.

I haven't set any permanent settings, but I use the Process Lasso control GUI, to change the CPU Priority, of the Firefox Processes, that are set by default to "Normal", to "Above Normal". Now my tabs open (relatively) quickly, though not quite as quickly as an non-loaded CPU, but it makes things "highly usable", finally, again.

I've heard that it can help things like DC apps, keeping threads pinned to cores for higher cache efficiency, and whatnot, too.

Try it! It has a free version, as well as a "Pro" version. Pretty sure that the EULA said that it was Free for home users.

 

[TheELF]

You can make a little .bat file with this single command without needing to install anything,click on that instead of on the normal icon and it will start firefox with a high priority,you can also use /abovenormal but as you saw that's not really cutting it..

start /high firefox.exe

You can even use /affinity n with the start command if you want to lock something to cores,n is the binary of the cores converted to hex,yeah look up a guide on that it's a bit complicated.

 

[crashtech]

I like Process Lasso because it can simulate SMT off for apps that can benefit from it.