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Understanding process priority in OS X

In this week's troubleshooting utility news and updates column we mentioned ProcessRenicer, a tool that allows users to change the scheduling priority of various processes, and discussed how this could be used to increase performance of some tasks. Some readers e-mailed in regarding this, wondering why not always change priority to make their programs run faster?

Unfortunately, changing the priority of a process does not mean you can tweak that process to make tasks magically faster on your system. Instead, it means that depending on your system's capabilities and uses, you might allow a task to respond more … Read more