Hey all,
just had an idea for a new way to tame processes. I have NO clue if/how it will work but here is the idea...
Process Tamer BLOCKS a process from taking more then set intervals of CPU power OR shadows a process from seeing the whole processor/whole processors power (The set intervals would be like 10%, 20%, 25% etc).
Why I thought of this idea...(NOTE: If anyone cares to know why I made up this good (or bad) idea here is why...
A program I have for all my machines (4) have a small program called CleanUp! (obviously it CLEANS UP!) But the bad part is that on my P4 1.6GHz machine...
CleanUp.exe takes 100% of CPU power for several HOURS
Here is an example of the new idea working...Process Tamer (with new options) opens via user
User opens (for my machine) CleanUp.exe
User opens ProcessTamerConfigurator.exe and edits options to have the program CleanUp.exe take 10% of the CPU's power
User instructs CleanUp.exe to start working and Process Tamer blocks it from using any mroe CPU power then 10% (so for me 160 MHz would go to CleanUp.exe at maximum).
Idea explained:I don't know if this can be done by shadowing to the program that the processor is only a certain speed (ex. I want to run MousersGreatNewAppFor2007.exe and I want it to use only 25% of my processor. So Process Tamer would tell it that the processor/CPU is only (for a 2.0 GHz average system) 500Mhz
OR
By simply limiting the app by just blocking it off from any other CPU power.
Any way would be fine (if this could be made possible) and I am sure that other people that run on old machines that are starting to "see the light" would benefit from this also.
Thanks all,
-Wreckedcarzz
(and have a MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!)
