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Let classic sleep
Authored by: kjackson on Feb 21, '02 08:09:02PM

The idle classic environment on my iMac 233 eats up about 5-10% of the cpu. Certain older classic applications I need to run can completely hog the cpu, even when apparantly idle.

While preemtive multitasking does keep the system responsive under such abuse, various windowing and aqua tasks are visibley choppier.

The solution to Classic biting your cpu usage is to set the "Put Classic To Sleep" option in the Classic control panel to a low value... say 2 minutes. For classic to sleep, you must quit any classic programs you are running. With classic asleep, its processor usage drops to 0.



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