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Quality of service in IPV6 [closed]
IPv6 was developed to solve some of the problems of IPv4, such as QoS.
We know in IPV4 based on TOS values, a packet would be placed in a prioritized outgoing queue,or take a route with appropriate ...
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Is there a way to prioritize network speeds on networked applications?
Just as there is "high priority, normal priority etc" or "niceness" for cpu time, is there a way to do something like this for a network card/internet? For example If I am downloading a file from my ...
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Port Priority on TP-Link 8951nd Router
First of all i apologize for my bad english :D
I have a TP-Link 8951nd ADSL Router witch connected to Xbox 360 Console and PC with ethernet port. i want to set priority to the ports so if xbox is ...
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How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?
Process Explorer is able to show the effective IO priority of a given thread, but not change it. Seeing as IO priority support is a comparatively new feature, most programs don't set their own IO ...
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What is Windows Priority and Affinity and what advatanges does it provide?
What exactly is Priority and Affinity (found within Task Manager) and what are they used for:
In what situations should/could they be used and what advantages are found while customizing these ...
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Using QoS to prioritize IP addresses
I have a Western Digital N900 router. I was hoping I'd be able to throttle users based on their MAC address with it, which isn't possible sadly. Seems simple in principle though, duh. The battle ...
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How to change IRQ priorities on Ubuntu?
I'm trying to figure out how to change the IRQ priorities for devices on Ubuntu (the specific release I have is 11.10). I found this question and answer which says it can be done, but it appears to ...
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Change GPU priority of a process under Windows
Is it possible to change the GPU priority of a certain process under Windows 7 (and older versions if possible)?
Changing the CPU priority doesn't seem to have any effect on the GPU usage. I have a ...
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Why I can decrease the process's priority by using nice() function with a typical user permission(except ROOT) in linux?
As I understand every user in linux can change the every process's priority by using nice and renice commands. Also I know that the all users just can increase the priority of processes and the only ...
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How to give the database server higher priority on network connection
I have a sybase database engine installed on a windows server 2008, there are shares also and active directory on the server, when the shares are accessed from many users at the same time the ...
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Can't change process priority in Windows 7
I need to use MATLAB in realtime, but when I go to the Task Manager and try to change it, it's giving me an error:
Unable to set Realtime priority. The priority was set to High instead.
I tried ...
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How can I automatically change the priority of Javaw.exe when loading Minecraft?
I launch Minecraft.exe which invokes Javaw.exe. I wish for Javaw.exe to be running in High priority because Minecraft lags if not.
I tried invoking Minecraft.exe with a high priority by doing this:
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Let task explorer always run with realtime priority
I have replaced task manager by process explorer from sysinternals. I would like this to always run at realtime, so that I can easily get it open when my system is really slow. I have noticed that it ...
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Set process priority to High: Dangerous?
I have read that setting something to realtime is a big no-no, so I am not going to do that. But I do have an application that I need to make sure always has the highest priority on my system as it ...
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How to Change Application's Default Execution Priority
Is there a way to change an application's default execution priority in Windows XP? I've heard that an application's installer usually sets its priority, so I'm thinking that there must be a registry ...
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Is it possible to give the RDC server more CPU priority?
I use a Windows Server 2003 machine for some CPU-intensive tasks. I'm wondering, is there any way of giving the Remote Desktop Connection server more priority, so that it doesn't hang while the server ...
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How to permanently “renice” a process on Mac OS X (or iOS, etc)?
I use a nice (free) process manager called ATMonitor for Mac OS X that has a lot of cool hidden features, one of which is being able to click on a running process and set the "renice" from +20 (less ...
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Configuring systemd to allow daemon to set RT priority
I have a daemon that calls pthread_setschedparam() to set the thread priority. On a system using systemd (OpenSuse 12.1), this fails, because sched_setscheduler() returns EPERM.
From what I ...
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Under linux, how do I find out if some specific thread is run with real-time priority?
I have a process (jackd) that runs several threads. One of the threads it runs should be in realtime, the others run on normal priorities. I'd like to check if it actually runs on realtime. What ...
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Dedicate IO priority to a process [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change I/O priority of a process or thread in Win7?
On Windows (7 in this case) it's possible to dedicate CPU priority to a process to make it go faster. In most ...
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TCP port prioritizing on switch/router (QoS)
I have some HP ProCurve series Switch. There is a QoS option for prioritize traffic by TCP/UDP port. I set two ports: one with highest priority and another with lowest. Then I performed tests to ...
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Program broke after changing its process priority?
I just want to know how to recover from the changes that I made on a particular program which used to work just fine but after I changed it's priority from normal to high it's no longer working.
To ...
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renice-ing Xorg for slow computers; will I expect an increase in responsiveness?
I love my netbook, but unfortunately it can struggle to perform under a heavy load. Changing windows, moving the mouse etc can have considerable lag. If I set the nice value on Xorg to default to ...
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How can I change the priority of a Windows service process?
I would like to run the Windows Desktop Search indexer at below normal priority. When I try to set this via task manager, I get 'Access is denied'.
Is there a way to remove whatever restrictions are ...
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How can I set network priority to give me faster download speed?
I have been trying for some time to torrent at school. They blocked almost every port apart from the necessary ones, (21 80 443 etc.) I finally figured out how to torrent, but with over 200 people ...
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Always run .exe with certain priority
I have an executable, say foo.exe. Because of a bug I need this executable to run at "low" priority at all times. The executable gets opened by another executable so replacing it with a batch file is ...
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What is the logic behind Linux nice values?
Wouldn't it be nice if nice values in Linux were switched:
-20 = low priority
+20 = high priority
$ renice -p +5 # would get more CPU time and
$ renice -p -5 # less
Why was it selected to be ...
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Improve priority of mplayer-pulseaudio-Xorg combination
I'm often having mplayer running on the side (e.g. watching television). However, this occasionally doesn't run too smoothly (granted, the CPU and GPU are also a bit weak).
I've already running ...
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On board Video Card vs PCIE 2.0 Video Card Priority..?
I'm making a build and have selected both a video card and Motherboard that I like and should be compatible. However, the motherboard has an ATI on board video card and the video card I selected is ...
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How can I prioritise network bandwidth on a per application basis?
Is there a way in Linux to give a specific application more/less priority for network bandwidth? Something like how nice does for CPU priority.
Context: I'm currently on a very low bandwidth ...
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Making log message priority show up in syslog
I'm using Red Hat 6.0 on a testing server. My code contains
syslog(pri,"(%u)%s",(unsigned int)getTid(),buf);
The log message in syslog looks like
(18597)DES=Recved confirmation of successful ...
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How do you keep Microsoft Excel running at full speed even when it does not have the window focus?
I've noticed that when Excel 2007 (and probably earlier versions) has the window focus, Excel runs at full speed which means that files open fast and long-running VBA macros execute quickly.
If the ...
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Can't change tasks to realtime priotity
I just want to change a running task's priority to realtime, but the taskmanager won't let me do it. If I try it, it'll just tell me that it can't change to realtime and then changes it to high ...
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Save processes priority settings?
Is there anyway to save the processes priority settings in Windows 7 instead of opening the task manager in every session and doing it manually?
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How can I tell Windows to always start certain binaries with low priority?
I want to demote the priority of a number of processes that are auto-started on my corporate XP machine. Is there a way that I can tell WinXP to always start a binary with low priority?
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How to give network choice priority to LAN other than WIFI in windows 7?
Currently my PC auto switches to use wifi network if you enable both LAN and WIFI. How can I reverse this?
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Is there any way to set the priority of a process in Mac OS X?
I have a background process running at 100% CPU on Mac OS X. All other applications are very slow because of it.
I'd like to set this process to take no more than 50% so that my applications can run ...
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How do you set memory priority (not cpu priority) on windows
I need to know how to change "memory priority" of a process. I need a utility that changes the memory priority of the process. Certain ram intensive programs can still make my important programs ...
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Windows File Access Precedence
Is there a way to tell Windows to give certain programs higher priority for file system access? As an analogy, you can give a certain program higher CPU priority, so that you can keep using a certain ...
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Unix ps -l priority
Why does unix ps -l whows one number in column "PRI" but in same time ps -o pri shows another number?
P.S. cpu and nice are zero for those processes
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In Windows-7 run command from batch file with reduced priority
I am starting a long, memory and CPU-intensive run. I know how to change the process priority manually from the task manager.
Is there a way that I can run it at low priority from a .bat file, since ...
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avoid killing SSH in out-of-memory
When my server runs into out-of-memory, it usually kills several applications.
How can i prevent from killing SSH? Because usually, when this out-of-memory error happens, my SSH is broken like this:
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Scheduled Task Priority and Paging problems
I just scheduled a task in my Windows 7, and I have 2 problems with it:
The process starting with Below Normal priority.
Even after manually changing the priority to Normal (via Task Manager), the ...
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what other application is using my sound card?
First off, if the answer to this is simply "you can't," I'm okay with that.
That said - in windows 7, I open the properties of the audio out on my sound card, change the default format from 16 bit to ...
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How can I throttle down Dropbox's IO operations?
Empirical evidence suggests that Dropbox's indexing at startup time is the main source of slowdown for my Windows 7 partition -- things grind down to a crawl when the indexing is in progress and ...
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How to do a real-time task with a high-load background task in Linux?
I've started recording of sound (minor CPU, memory and IO load) as
schedtool -R -p 2 -e arecord -f cd > qqq5.wav
And perform large compilation (high CPU load + high memory load + high IO load) ...
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linux swap disk priority
Let's say you have two swap disks, set up like this:
swap1: priority = -1
swap2: priority = -2
Is this going to be any different from the following setup?
swap1: priority = 47
swap2: priority = 10
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How change linux swap disk priority permanently
I'm using two swap disks. Changing the order they are in in /etc/fstab and using "pri" in fstab doesn't have any effect.
This is what it looks like /etc/fstab
#swap on other disk
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ALWAYS run commands with low priority on unix?
I am not asking how to nice and renice a command on UNIX.
What happens is that on a particular machine into which I frequently log I am only allowed to run long-running processes with low priority ...
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What is the meaning of pri=42
When mounting a swap partition on Linux, what does the mount option pri=42 mean?
fstab:
/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
