Hey all,
I leapt with joy when I found out that Apple had moved to a UNIX based O/S. This brought pre emptive multi tasking, priority based process scheduling and all the other wonders that UNIX provides. However when I got my PowerBook G4 I was dismayed to learn that the only way to change the priority of a process was to find it using ps and then renice it using the terminal. This was a pain and not really usable on a daily basis.
So I fired up XCode and wrote "Prioritize". It's a program that lists all the running processes (minus all the background ones) and lets you alter their priorities. As a normal user you are allowed to lower the priority of your own process but to increase the prioriity of any process you need to authenticate with your password to get root priveledges.
The program is now ready for beta testing so I thought I'd let you guys have a play with it. It's only PowerPC for the moment until I figure out how to cross compile then i'll make it Universal
You can get it here http://www.btinternet.com/~johnmblackburn/Prioritize.app.zip
Note: The process numbers are a little counter intuitive, the lower the priority number the more processing power is given to that application.
Chris
I leapt with joy when I found out that Apple had moved to a UNIX based O/S. This brought pre emptive multi tasking, priority based process scheduling and all the other wonders that UNIX provides. However when I got my PowerBook G4 I was dismayed to learn that the only way to change the priority of a process was to find it using ps and then renice it using the terminal. This was a pain and not really usable on a daily basis.
So I fired up XCode and wrote "Prioritize". It's a program that lists all the running processes (minus all the background ones) and lets you alter their priorities. As a normal user you are allowed to lower the priority of your own process but to increase the prioriity of any process you need to authenticate with your password to get root priveledges.
The program is now ready for beta testing so I thought I'd let you guys have a play with it. It's only PowerPC for the moment until I figure out how to cross compile then i'll make it Universal
You can get it here http://www.btinternet.com/~johnmblackburn/Prioritize.app.zip
Note: The process numbers are a little counter intuitive, the lower the priority number the more processing power is given to that application.
Chris