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Writing a low-priority program

I'm looking to write a program that operates at the lowest execution
priority possible. That is, I want the program to basically run in the
background having as little impact on the performance of computer system as
possible. The program will do some background backup tasks.

I'm reasonably sure that the first step is to create a thread, and to assign
the thread the lowest execution priority possible. Are there any other
techniques, advice, tricks, etc. that I should be aware of? Are there any
good examples or tutorials that anyone knows of?

TIA,

Richard Rosenheim
Jul 21 '05 #1
5 1889
Just run your process with the ProcessPriorityClass.Idle.

Willy.

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I'm looking to write a program that operates at the lowest execution
priority possible. That is, I want the program to basically run in the
background having as little impact on the performance of computer system
as
possible. The program will do some background backup tasks.

I'm reasonably sure that the first step is to create a thread, and to
assign
the thread the lowest execution priority possible. Are there any other
techniques, advice, tricks, etc. that I should be aware of? Are there any
good examples or tutorials that anyone knows of?

TIA,

Richard Rosenheim

Jul 21 '05 #2
Thanks for the reply. One other question -- is it possible (or even
advisable) to set the priority of the actual program to idle, or must/should
I spawn a separate thread in which I set that thread's priority to idle?

Richard Rosenheim
"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <wi*************@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:O8**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Just run your process with the ProcessPriorityClass.Idle.

Willy.

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
I'm looking to write a program that operates at the lowest execution
priority possible. That is, I want the program to basically run in the
background having as little impact on the performance of computer system
as
possible. The program will do some background backup tasks.

I'm reasonably sure that the first step is to create a thread, and to
assign
the thread the lowest execution priority possible. Are there any other
techniques, advice, tricks, etc. that I should be aware of? Are there any good examples or tutorials that anyone knows of?

TIA,

Richard Rosenheim


Jul 21 '05 #3
Richard,
No, just grap the CurrentProcess and set it's prioryty class to Idle.

....
Process currentProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
currentProcess.PriorityClass = ProcessPriorityClass.Idle;
....

Willy.

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
news:OI**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Thanks for the reply. One other question -- is it possible (or even
advisable) to set the priority of the actual program to idle, or
must/should
I spawn a separate thread in which I set that thread's priority to idle?

Richard Rosenheim
"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <wi*************@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:O8**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Just run your process with the ProcessPriorityClass.Idle.

Willy.

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I'm looking to write a program that operates at the lowest execution
> priority possible. That is, I want the program to basically run in the
> background having as little impact on the performance of computer
> system
> as
> possible. The program will do some background backup tasks.
>
> I'm reasonably sure that the first step is to create a thread, and to
> assign
> the thread the lowest execution priority possible. Are there any other
> techniques, advice, tricks, etc. that I should be aware of? Are there any > good examples or tutorials that anyone knows of?
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard Rosenheim
>
>



Jul 21 '05 #4
Thanks again.

Richard Rosenheim
"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <wi*************@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
Richard,
No, just grap the CurrentProcess and set it's prioryty class to Idle.

...
Process currentProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
currentProcess.PriorityClass = ProcessPriorityClass.Idle;
...

Willy.

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
news:OI**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
Thanks for the reply. One other question -- is it possible (or even
advisable) to set the priority of the actual program to idle, or
must/should
I spawn a separate thread in which I set that thread's priority to idle?

Richard Rosenheim
"Willy Denoyette [MVP]" <wi*************@pandora.be> wrote in message
news:O8**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Just run your process with the ProcessPriorityClass.Idle.

Willy.

"Richard L Rosenheim" <ri*****@rlr.com> wrote in message
news:e2*************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I'm looking to write a program that operates at the lowest execution
> priority possible. That is, I want the program to basically run in the > background having as little impact on the performance of computer
> system
> as
> possible. The program will do some background backup tasks.
>
> I'm reasonably sure that the first step is to create a thread, and to
> assign
> the thread the lowest execution priority possible. Are there any other > techniques, advice, tricks, etc. that I should be aware of? Are
there any
> good examples or tutorials that anyone knows of?
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard Rosenheim
>
>



Jul 21 '05 #5
Cor
Priority setting for your current program mainthread

Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Priority = Threading.ThreadPriority.Lowest

I hope this helps?

Cor
Jul 21 '05 #6

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