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Multiple instances to allow for different process priorities?
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lid 
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 04:23 AM
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SirSmiley
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 05:36 AM
Just ran two myself to see. Without a problem. Interestingly, whether intended or not the second version came in substantially lower in resouces even though it was identical?
The only conflict I could see is when you boot up and/or shut down. You probably would want a delay on the second (subsequent) version?
The only conflict I could see is when you boot up and/or shut down. You probably would want a delay on the second (subsequent) version?
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herd
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 07:24 AM
That's a good idea.
Since AveDesk runs each desklet in its own thread, we should add the possibility to adjust the thread priority for each desklet separately. Then you could run a single instance, set all desklets except volume to below normal.
Also, with all this dual cores and hyperthreaders around, we should provide a setting to assign a desklet to a CPU...
Thinking even further, most users still run as admins. The user should be able to restrict a desklet to a lower account (for safeguarding malicious scripts).
Since AveDesk runs each desklet in its own thread, we should add the possibility to adjust the thread priority for each desklet separately. Then you could run a single instance, set all desklets except volume to below normal.
Also, with all this dual cores and hyperthreaders around, we should provide a setting to assign a desklet to a CPU...
Thinking even further, most users still run as admins. The user should be able to restrict a desklet to a lower account (for safeguarding malicious scripts).
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 07:43 AM
herd said:
That's a good idea.
Since AveDesk runs each desklet in its own thread, we should add the possibility to adjust the thread priority for each desklet separately. Then you could run a single instance, set all desklets except volume to below normal.
Also, with all this dual cores and hyperthreaders around, we should provide a setting to assign a desklet to a CPU...
Thinking even further, most users still run as admins. The user should be able to restrict a desklet to a lower account (for safeguarding malicious scripts).
Since AveDesk runs each desklet in its own thread, we should add the possibility to adjust the thread priority for each desklet separately. Then you could run a single instance, set all desklets except volume to below normal.
Also, with all this dual cores and hyperthreaders around, we should provide a setting to assign a desklet to a CPU...
Thinking even further, most users still run as admins. The user should be able to restrict a desklet to a lower account (for safeguarding malicious scripts).
That level of customisation out of the box would be great. SirSmiley I simply didn't try duplicating the directory and running a second program. Works great thanks for the suggestion. Got it running nicely now with 2 Avedesk.exe running how I would like (being sure not to overwrite the currenttheme default save location for my primary instance to within the avedesk directory. Presumably memory usage is higher this way than being able to adjust priorities for each desklet within one instance but it seems fine to me. Who would have thought it would be so simple, silly me..
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 01:33 PM
Hmmm.. I'll look into the possiblity for avescripter set his priority. Top priority, I like this idea alot. Also will look into the "security" issue. As is.. Scripter could be very "dangerous".
Running 2 version of avedesk is just uses more memory.
Running 2 version of avedesk is just uses more memory.
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 04:58 PM
pcm said:
....As is.. Scripter could be very "dangerous".
Thanks for the heads up. I guess a temp work-a-round would simply be (depending on needs) to maybe create a second AveDesk Directory absent the scripter. Obviously this depends on a person's needs/wants.
pcm said:
Running 2 version of avedesk is just uses more memory.
Amazingly enough it still beats Y!Gadgets (only 4 widgets open =70mb for me).
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 10:29 PM
Of course not for AveDesk that's for gadgets & regular memory.
The most I've ever seen AveDesk (under normal use) at was around 40mb memory when working on a sidebar style desklet/config...umm for obvious reasons.
Always thought the exe was a good idea.
The most I've ever seen AveDesk (under normal use) at was around 40mb memory when working on a sidebar style desklet/config...umm for obvious reasons.
Always thought the exe was a good idea.
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