setting CPU priority ? (1 Viewer)

[gibman]

Subject says it all.

It would be super to be able to set CPU prio. on the tvservice.
This cannot be done manually in taskmanger, since it's a service.

/Gibman

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

It would be super to be able to set CPU prio. on the tvservice.
This cannot be done manually in taskmanger, since it's a service

TVService uses so little power from the CPU running as a service, to be not worth bothering about.

If you are getting high cpu use, i would say you have a problem.

 

[Nightmare77]

would be handier to have mediaportal.exe to have a feature to choose the priority on the client i reckon

 

[gibman]

Well both places I would say.

My server is running multiple stuff.

Ex. when the XMLTV parser thing starts CPU spikes to 100%

I would like to make sure that the tvserver process is never starved of CPU cycles.
Shouldn't be too hard to implement.

Ofcourse buying a new dual core server setup would be preferable.

/Gibman

 

[crawdaddy]

I've been going back and forth as to whether or not to disable Hyperthreading on my P4 processoer that's running both the server and the client. I was going to keep HT enabled since I was running 2 processes, TV Engine and MP. But if TV Engine doesn't each up that much in the line of cycles running in the background, I may just turn HT off and see if I can't get a little more response out of it. (not that the machine has any problems with keeping up as it is now)

 

[gibman]

With ProcessExplorer, one is able to set the prio. on services.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx

/gibman

 

[dukeelam]

I am using this program: http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/processutil/processutil.htm

Like so:

C:\>process -p mediaportal.exe high

I get much smoother video when running MP in High priority, checking with the Shift-"!" bar it does not lag as it does on normal.
Though my system is just about able to run TV Server in single seat mode. On modern hardware this might not be necessary.

And a request.
This could be done without the external program if Mediaportal was able to be started with:

START /D"C:\MediaportalDirectory" /HIGH mediaportal.exe

However MP wont recognize the START parameter /HIGH and starts in normal prio using the START command. Think MP sets the priority when it initializes so that overrides the parameter.


(The process util gives a false positive om some Virus scanners as it can be used to kill processes and stuff also. Tested it with Virustotal)

Edit: Searched to find this post as i read it before, but forgot this post was about TV Server and not MP that i imply. Tested the utility and it can set the priority of the TVService.exe file also though =)


Regards
Duke