CPU Priority

icfireballicfireball
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
On Mac OS X (tiger), can you/how do you set a higher cpu priority or usage for a program such as excel, imovie, photoshop, etc.

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    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
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    Originally posted by icfireball

    On Mac OS X (tiger), can you/how do you set a higher cpu priority or usage for a program such as excel, imovie, photoshop, etc.



    First, use Activity Monitor to find out the Process ID (PID) of the app. The PID is in the leftmost column.



    Next, open Terminal and type



    sudo renice -20 PID



    where PID is the number you got from Activity Monitor. Enter an Admin password when sudo asks for it.



    Note: Nobody really knows if this is enabled on Mac OS X or not.
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