Re: Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

2015-07-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Colin Holgate colinholg...@gmail.com wrote: In the Unix world you would be talking about renice. It works for Mac OS too: renice is wonderful; I used to use it all the time. Today however I don't have anything that spikes the CPU other than building livecode

Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

2015-07-19 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Colin Holgate wrote : In the Unix world you would be talking about renice. It works for Mac OS too: Thanks Colin Thought for the day : “Windows is a pane ! ……. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

2015-07-18 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I was brought up in the era of IBM 360/370 main-Frame computers, where the Operating Systems used a dynamic CPU allocation, based upon the the CPU requirements. For the novice, in this era, it seemed strange to allocate CPU time in an “apparent” reverse order of

Re: Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

2015-07-18 Thread Colin Holgate
In the Unix world you would be talking about renice. It works for Mac OS too: http://www.andrewhazelden.com/blog/2011/03/using-renice-to-control-cpu-usage/ http://www.andrewhazelden.com/blog/2011/03/using-renice-to-control-cpu-usage/ ___ use-livecode