AW: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Win2000

[Hessling, Rene]

Dave,

Thanks for your response. The looked at the trick with the "idle
sensitivity" and also played around with some of the memory options. With
the sensitivity set to high everything works out OK with background
applications.... but.... (and I apologize for my continuous nagging...) If
no other application is using the CPU power then Papyrus (or rather
NTVDM.EXE) still takes ALL available CPU power (I wonder what Papyrus is
working on the whole time....). 

Now on a desktop PC this is really no big problem, but I'm working on a
laptop and when the CPU and fan is chugging away it really kills the
batteries. 

Is there no simple solution to this?

Thanks again...

Rene




> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Dave Goldman, Research Software Design [mailto:dave at rsd.com]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 2. August 2001 07:44
> An: papyrus-l at rsd.com
> Betreff: Re: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Win2000
> 
> Rene Hessling wrote:
> >Papyrus (or better NTVDM.EXE) takes up about 97% of the CPU 
> time! There must
> >be a way to set priorities down a little or something.
> 
> Yes indeed: In the Properties dialog for your Papyrus 
> shortcut icon, go to
> the "Misc" tab. There, slide the "Idle sensitivity" indicator 
> toward the
> "High" end.
> 
> I can't recall right now why we have long been recommending an Idle
> sensitivity setting of "Low". It probably had to do with 
> maximizing the
> performance of CPU-intensive Papyrus tasks such as importing. 
> I trust that
> if any of you discovers any unpleasant side effects of the 
> "High" setting,
> you will let us all know.
> 
> One would think that the Properties setting "Background: 
> Always suspend"
> would also have a beneficial effect on CPU resource usage 
> when Papyrus is
> not the foreground job, but in my experiments I haven't seen 
> much effect
> from this setting.
> 
> 
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