kakarukeys wrote:
Hi,
When I am running a loop for a long time, calculating heavily, the CPU
usage
is at 100%, making the comp not so responsive. Is there a way to
control the
CPU usage at say 80%? putting a time.sleep(0.x) doesn't seem to help
although CPU usage level is reduced, but it's unstable.
Regards,
W.J.F.
Controlling a task's scheduling is most definitely OS-dependent., so you
need to say what OS you're running on. And whether it's a multi-core
and or duo processor.
In Windows, there is a generic way to tell the system that you want to
give a boost to whatever task has the user focus (generally the
top-window on the desktop). On some versions, that's the default, on
others, it's not. You change it from Control Panel. I'd have to go
look to tell you what applet, but I don't even know if you're on Windows.
In addition, a program can adjust its own priority, much the way the
Unix 'nice' command works. You'd use the Win32 library for that.
And as you already tried, you can add sleep() operations to your
application.
But if you're looking at the task list in the Windows Task Manager, you
aren't necessarily going to see what you apparently want. There's no
way to programmatically tell the system to use a certain percentage for
a given task. If there's nothing else to do, then a low priority task
is still going to get nearly 100% of the CPU. Good thing. But even if
there are other things to do, the scheduling is a complex interaction
between what kinds of work the various processes have been doing lately,
how much memory load they have, and what priority they're assigned.
If you just want other processes to be "responsive" when they've got the
focus, you may want to make that global setting. But you may need to
better define "responsive" and "unstable."
DaveA
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