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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Imagine you need to render out some video on your system, but when you

start the job, you find out it’ll take six hours. As soon as the job starts, your

music starts skipping and jumping along. The video renders might be more

important in the grand scheme of things, but you won’t be able to get

anything else done with your music stuttering along. The best idea here is to

increase the priority of a single process you need to run normally, such as

your audio player, or reduce the priority of a single process that isn’t as time

sensitive, such as the video renderer, without touching any other priorities. It

may be better to have your system spend eight hours rendering a video while

you use it for other work than to have your system rendered unusable for six.

NOTE Setting any single process to Realtime priority will often bring the

entire system to a crawl as no other process gets much CPU time—avoid

Realtime priority.

Set Affinity enables you to specify which CPU cores a process can run on

(see Figure 12-12). You probably won’t need to touch affinity; the most

likely reason you would need to do so is a situation in which you have some

processes (perhaps older programs that are not well designed for multicore

systems) that need to be separated from others.

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