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Subject: Changing the Process Priority in C++ (Windows)
Category: Computers > Programming
Asked by: avalanche-ga
List Price: $14.50

Posted: 22 Dec 2003 20:03 PST
Expires: 23 Dec 2003 01:35 PST
Question ID: 289638

I've written an unmanaged C++ console application using MS Visual Studio .NET
2003.  The program is a server that is called by Apache that does some
lengthy processing.  I'm not very familiar with the Windows API so I'd
appreciate it if somebody can just give me the ***raw C++ code to change
the application's own process priority down one notch below 'normal'***.  Thanks.

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Subject: Re: Changing the Process Priority in C++ (Windows)
From: wonlay-ga on 22 Dec 2003 23:42 PST

#include <windows.h>
//include Kernel32.lib in link parameters
//......
if (
    SetPriorityClass (
                    GetCurrentProcess(),
                    BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
                     );
//......
/*
REALTIME_PRIORITY_CLASS------highest
HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS
ABOVE_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS------lowest
*/

Subject: Re: Changing the Process Priority in C++ (Windows)
From: wonlay-ga on 23 Dec 2003 00:06 PST

//Sorry, like that ~
~_#include <windows.h>
//include Kernel32.lib in link parameters
//......
SetPriorityClass (
                  GetCurrentProcess(),
                  BELOW_NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
                  );
//......

Subject: Re: Changing the Process Priority in C++ (Windows)
From: avalanche-ga on 23 Dec 2003 01:31 PST

Wow, simple enough. :)  It worked.  Thanks, wonlay.

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