At 4:57 PM -0500 11/17/2008, insightinmind wrote: >Tiger 10.4.11. > >Any way to restrict cpu usage by an application like Firefox?
yes. Change their niceness. >myspace.com login page downloads a hog of a movie trailer and ads, >causes an 85% gobbling up of cpu ... on my poor little G4/400 Yikes! >... well, Yikes! Cannot even move away from it for awhile at times. I have this problemo too, on my Smurf. In general, the best solution is to block that annoying content. There are a number of tools to do this, as Bruce mentions in his reply. The alternative is to change the process' niceness. This essentially de-prioritizes it a bit, so other processes can grab the cpu more often. The downside - Nicer processes become less responsive from the user's pov if there are other things running that want the cpu. The nice value starts at 0, and has a range -20 to +20. Less nice = increasing priority. So, for example... if you want a process to be piggy when it needs, decrease its niceness to something like -5 (make it mean!). If you want a process like Firefox to be nicer, increase its niceness. To view all your processes and their niceness... use this command: ps -lAcU dan (replace "dan" with your own username of course) To change a process' niceness, use this command: sudo renice +5 pid (replace "pid" with the numerical process id from the ps command). I found a tool to do this, called BeNicer. It works ok. But I've found the shell commands are easier. BeNicer Tool to renice the priority of any process http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16534 Changing niceness has to be done from an admin account, btw... HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
