Limit CPU Utilization

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Brad

A nice feature to add would be a CPU Utilization limit.
Scanning chews up a lot CPU while trying to get work
done. It would be nice to be able to limit the amount of
CPU the program is allowed to use. Perhaps even an option
to "scan when idle".
 
But that could ultimately affect ther performance of the application in
negative ways. A lot of the CPU utilization issues are being looked at for
the next beta release, also a lot of the slowness has to do with your hard
disk. Ensure that your hard disk is defragmented and do a disk clean up.
 
But that could ultimately affect ther performance of the application in
negative ways. A lot of the CPU utilization issues are being looked at for
the next beta release, also a lot of the slowness has to do with your hard
disk. Ensure that your hard disk is defragmented and do a disk clean up.
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A slow hard disk will mean less agressive CPU utilisation - not more -
whilst it waits for IO's to complete it will idle loop or perform other
compute tasks (one hopes). Of course the IO channels may be saturated so
there won't be so many ready to run!

Basically I think the original poster was looking for a socially responsible
self restraining process that would run in a nice background mode for
filesystem scanning at least. Of course real-time monitoring and
inteception would justify less restraint, but I haven't ever seen a program
from MS that doesn't become a sociopathic monster when lots of work is on
offer regardless of whether it is important or not.

Cheers, Frank.
 
Actually, I think Brad is seeing a bug on his machine. I definitely notice
the scan activity, but not to the point of it being a major problem--and I
don't have a speed-demon system--PIII-750. There are a number of
performance-related bugs for which I don't have any answers--just
acknowledgement that on some systems, the program isn't usable.
 
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