I found an interesting program first heard about from a tweet from File
Forum. Here is an overview copied from the documentation.
Process Lasso
Overview
Process Lasso is an automated Windows process (program) management and
optimization utility. By managing the programs running on your computer,
Process Lasso increases system responsiveness and helps to prevents
system stalls. It accomplishes this through our ProBalance technology.
This proprietary algorithm dynamically adjusts the priorities of running
programs so that some are given higher priority access to the CPU(s)
than others. With Process Lasso, no longer will single, or multiple,
processes be able to bring your system to a virtual stall. Process Lasso
will let you keep interacting with your computer, even when it is
totally swamped.
In addition to the ProBalance technology, users can tweak how their
programs are run. Process Lasso offers a number of unique and helpful
capabilities. These include default priority classes, default CPU
affinities, disallowed processes, keep running processes, per-process
power schemes, a process watchdog, and process instance count limits.
These features give you the ability to control how programs utilize your
computer's resources based on automatic settings. With Process Lasso,
you can decide exactly how you want your processes to run.
Process Lasso uses virtually no system resources itself, being written
in highly optimized native x32 and x64 C++. The core engine can run
stand-alone and consume as little as 1-3MB of RAM.
Documentation Contents
1. The Parts of Process Lasso
2. About ProBalance
1. How is my CPU shared?
2. How does ProBalance work?
3. Proof of concept
3. About CPU Throttling
4. About Gaming Mode
5. Using the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
1. The Main Window
2. Graph
1. Per-process CPU history
3. All Processes Tab
1. Select what process information to show
2. Rules column meaning
3. Single selection process context menu
4. Multiple selection process context menu
4. Active Processes Tab
1. Select what process information to show
2. Double clicking a process
3. Single selection process context menu
4. Multiple selection process context menu
5. Configuration Dialogs
1. ProBalance Options
2. Default CPU Affinities
3. Default Priorities
4. Auto-Terminate List
5. Process Watchdog
6. Instance count limits
7. Keep running processes
8. Gaming processes
9. Anti-sleep processes
10. Default Process Power Schemes
6. Main Menu Options
6. Using The Core Engine
1. Overview
2. Running as a Service
7. Using the INI Configuration File
8. Command Line Arguments
9. Advanced Tools
1. TweakScheduler
2. Vista Multimedia Scheduler Configuration Tool
10. Enterprise Deployment
1. Deployment methods
2. On a Terminal Server
3. Service mode
4. Silent installation
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Credits
13. Licensing
All content throughout documentation (c)2011 Bitsum Technologies
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