So I was checking out XP at a friend's house. After a while, I don' know why, I launched Seti, and changed its priority to real-time in the (very nice, I wish we had something similar) task ...

As with many Unix and Linux systems, you can change the priority of processes in OS X to advance them through the CPU. While this will not make them faster, it can be used to make processes more ...

This question isn't really important, just something I've been wondering.<BR><BR>From what I understand (which isn't much), moving the process priority up allocates more time for the CPU to operate on ...

The System Idle Process on a computer can't cause high CPU usage because the process is a measurement of how much of the CPU's resources are free at any given moment. Unlike every other process in the ...