Tip: Is Your Computer Up to it?

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> On 30-Jan-2005, "PapaJohn \(MVP\)" <PapaJohn@CharterMI.net> wrote:
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>> turning down the priority of the task would
>> help too, taking longer to render is better than overheating

>
> Completely Wrong information...Come on Microsoft how long are you going to
> allow this person the freedom to post messages that are so completely
> wrong?? His understanding of what happens at this level is the same as his
> knowledge on using basic programs...sadly lacking.
>
> Why he is wrong....simply, turning down the priority for one program
> increases the chances for other programs/procedures to use the CPU....the
> CPU will still run at the same speed, WHY ??? Easy, if there are no other
> process that want access then Movie Maker uses those spare slots
> itself....the result is NO CHANGE IN CPU SPEED. I have no doubt that the
> author of the above thought....So, lets suppose that Movie Maker would
> normally require 100% of the CPU....That's the wrong approach.
>
> The correct approach is....here is 100% of the slots (T States)...Movie
> Maker has a normal priority....no other process's want the CPU...lets give
> it all to Movie Maker...the comments by this mvp would have you
> believe....."Here are 100% of the slots available....and Movie Maker has a
> priority less than normal therefore I am only going to give it some number
> less than all of them, AND as no other process wants those slots I am
> going
> to sit idle" HAHAHAHAHA NO NO NO Computers do not work like that.
>
> The CPU will ALWAYS be active if some process requires it no matter how
> low
> the priority is for that process...it will ALWAYS give the next time slot
> to the process with the highest priority....if that particular process is
> waiting for something else to happen then the time slot is given to any
> other process requiring it again using the hierarchy of highest priority
> process first. Because of this.....the CPU will ALWAYS run at full speed
> through the time period that Movie Maker would have run at full speed if
> no
> changes had been made to its priority.
>
> He is also wrong about the CPU limiting how fast a project can be
> rendered....he is using the equivalent of several cliche's strung together
> badly to make a self evident point....Laptop computers are NOT suitable
> for
> this kind of job.....that's why Microsoft put barriers in the way with
> laptops so that the laptop will not overheat...I don't have the link at
> hand, but it is well documented at the Microsoft
> website...unfortunately...Microsoft also tell you how to get around those
> blocks. There is a lot more to why he is wrong on this point...to explain
> it all would make for a VERY long message
>
> The remarks about Memory, well people...its drivel, something to pad out
> the message... 211MB in use and he has just started the machine...So
> what??? what is his point? In what way does that information help? Does he
> think it odd that the machine will use more and more memory as its needs
> require is in some way strange?????
>
> If you take the advice of going to the Performance indicator does he think
> that you will catch the computer out and see that there is more or less
> Real and Virtual memory than there really is???...would you make it go and
> stand in the corner with its monitor turned down because it has been a bad
> little computer????
>
> The Truth, he has recently found those nice little graphs and stats when
> you press CTRL-ALT-DEL and all those numbers and wiggly lines have become
> addictive to him.....and without all that drivel...there would have been
> NO
> TIP THIS DAY
>
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> Best Wishes.....John Kelly
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