[Ti] Closing the Lid

b flipper at macsrule.com
Mon Jan 27 03:57:53 PST 2003


>  > Here's a way to restore the performance of other applications.
>>
>>  Open a terminal window, then do a "ps ax | grep Final" -- You'll 
>>see something
>>  like:
>>
>>  1762 ?? R 287:06.55 /Applications/Final Cut Pro.app/Contents/MacOS/Final
>>
>>  Then do a "renice 20 1762. 1762 is the process ID, yours will be different.
>>  It'll respond 1762: old priority 0, new priority 20
>>
>>  ...and voila! Suddenly Mail, Safari, the LAFCPUG forum, etc, are real fast
>>  again.
>>
>>  Note -- switch it back by doing renice 0 1762 (but really your process ID)
>>  before capturing or playing back, etc, or you will get dropped frames for
>>  sure.
>
>HTH,
>
>G.

Hi George,

Question: Would it be easier/possible, to just grab the ID from 
Process viewer and hit the renice command right off the bat in 
Terminal, or is the grep to get the location, time, PID in Terminal, 
necessary?

~flipper



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