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An AppleScript that may give OS X a speed boost
Authored by: michaelfr on Apr 02, '03 08:59:26AM

I noticed the post warning about using a -15 in the renice command as possibly interfering with the system. While I don't think I would change the priority for system-level processes, I've been doing this with my own processes for awhile now.

I've been using the following code for over a year on my OS X system and have had no problems with it whatsoever. I've run this on a G3/400 and on my G4/800, using OS X versions from 10.1.5 thru 10.2.4, with no problems:

do shell script "sudo renice -15 -u USER_NAME password PASSWORD with administrator privileges

It does seem to increase performance without incident.

Thanks,

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An AppleScript that may give OS X a speed boost
Authored by: rpitcairn on Apr 02, '03 10:32:09PM

I tried this but only get the response that "Command not found". Tried different ways of formatting the sentence, like where to put the quote marks as the way you posted it said there was a quote missing. Anyway, can't get it to work.



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An AppleScript that may give OS X a speed boost
Authored by: pink on Apr 04, '03 06:00:04AM

actually, I don't see why not just type
sudo renice -15 -u USERNAME
in the terminal. This is remembered between logouts, so it just has to be repeated after reboots..

cheers, pink



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