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E. Frijters
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Setting process priority to HIGH automaticly
Hello,

I know, I know... setting the priority of the wcg process doesn't offer a lot of extra performance, but I was fiddling around with "windows scripting" and I created a small script that you can schedule. It changes the priority of all wcg_* processes to HIGH. You can alter the priority by setting different constants.

Just save it as an ASCII file with extention ".vbs" so you can run it
(Windows platform offcourse wink )


Const NORMAL = 32
Const LOW = 64
Const REALTIME = 128
Const HIGH = 256
Const BELOW_NORMAL = 16384
Const ABOVE_NORMAL = 32768

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process")
For Each objProcess in colProcesses
    If Left(objProcess.Name,4) = "wcg_" Then
      objProcess.SetPriority(HIGH) 
    End If
Next

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Re: Setting process priority to HIGH automaticly
Hi Effy,

Urban legends.... the science app will behave nice.... your gain will be seconds at the most and the potential of affecting other processes is always there.

BUT, you gave me an idea to set BOINC.exe automatically to high. That way the benchmark always gets near maximum attention. I continue to think it the greatest nonsense of all for the credits to be given for real CPU cycles to be impaired by wall-clock effects.

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