Re: [PLUG] that's nice

[jeffv via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks for the info, but I don't have admin.
Normally that would piss me off, but I think they did a good job of 
locking things down to keep us safe from ourselves (and maybe even others).

The program eats everything, making opening browser tabs an event.


On 4/5/21 8:53 AM, Thomas Delrue wrote:
> If you're a member of the administrators group, the command you're
> looking for is
> 	taskkill /im application.exe /f
>
> :P
>
> Otherwise, if you want to stay 'nice', you can hop into the task
> manager, right click on the process that eating up all your CPU and
> select "Change Priority".
> It will try to scare you out of doing that but just proceed, everything
> is fine.
>
> All of this will only work if you're on an account that has privileges
> over that process.
>
> More systemically, good luck on convincing those folks that that process
> should be run in a more 'nice way'. Let me know which arguments worked...
>
> On 4/5/21 08:45, jeffv via plug wrote:
> > I'm fuming because w@rk runs virus scans which eat up every last
> > resource. I'm all for scans, but it runs at 100% cpu for hours. I want
> > to contact the correct people and discuss it with them...I don't know if
> > there's a Windows command to do this...
> >
> >
> > "Linux has a nice command, which can reduce the amount of resources a
> > program is eating."
> >
> > What's it called?
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> > Yes, what is the nice program called.
> >
> > It's nice.
> >
> > I'm sure it is, but what's it called?
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> > Look, I understand it's nice to have this program, but what program?
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> > Ok, you fire up the program to help you. What do you run?
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> > and so on....
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