From: "Gregg N" 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4226336f$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> 1) I've set FireFox to Below Normal and even Low and on some occasions it
has
> continued to eat 98% of the CPU. Switching to a different process the
other process
> was still slow. Starting up Borland C++ Builder or switching to regular
Mozilla
> (which I have running at the same time) is still slow even for popping up
a Find
> dialog. Well, I have a Gig of RAM and the apps are all well below the Gig.
So I don't

Changing the priority of a process will not affect its CPU utilization
unless something of higher priority requires the CPU. For example, right
now the System Idle Process on my computer is using 99% CPU. The fact that
it is the lowest priority thing on my system does not prevent it from using
almost 100% CPU.

Most user-driven applications are I/O bound, not CPU bound. A flash
animation is likely CPU bound. Therefore, making the flash animation run at
lower priority will not change its CPU utilization if the higher priority
processes are all waiting for keyboard input.

Gregg

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