[HN Gopher] BES - OSS Windows software to control per-process CP...
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       BES - OSS Windows software to control per-process CPU usage
        
       Author : olvy0
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2024-06-08 06:58 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
       | > The thing is, BES needs some privileges to do its job, i.e.
       | suspending and resuming threads that don't belong to its own
       | process.
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       | Wow so it's turning the target process off and on constantly. I'm
       | surprised that alone doesn't introduce lots of overhead?
        
         | theamk wrote:
         | It's a Windows app - if you are worried about overhead, you
         | wouldn't be running Windows in the first place.
         | 
         | But to answer your question, I am sure this has plenty of
         | overhead, but given there are no real alternatives, people
         | still accept it. Better to waste some CPU time that have some
         | totally unresponsive game.
        
         | blueflow wrote:
         | Thats sort of how multitasking works, except its instructed
         | from userspace instead of by the kernel itself.
        
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