On Nov 18, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Dan wrote:
> > 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... I was experimenting with "Nicer" ... but it hasn't been updated in awhile, and I'm running Tiger. Doesn't seem to hold the Nice-ness factor from 1 app run to the next. BeNicer does the trick ... not as pretty as Nicer ... but holds the renice factors for the processes. Experimentation in progress ... Nice (so far) ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
