Running cl.exe in BelowNormal priority

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Alain Dekker - 27 May 2005 15:32 GMT

Hi,

When I do large builds (I'm using Visual Studio .NET 2002), cl.exe
automatically starts in normal processor priority. I frequently set the
priority to "Belownormal" in Task manager. However, I'd like to have it
automatically start with this priority level.

I did a search on the web and found this article:

http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/V-S/tips/article.php/c439/

but it only deals with VS6. Anybody know the procedure for VS7? I also don't
think a batch file with start /high cl.exe will work since its all launched
by the VS environment.

Who can help?
Thanks,
Alain Dekker

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Kyle Alons - 27 May 2005 17:02 GMT

It's in the comments of that article:
http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/V-S/tips/comments.php/c439/?thread=4744

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- 27 May 2005 17:30 GMT

If you paste this wrap in a browser, you get better.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.vc.ide_general/
browse_frm/thread/3e5f956875f44ef8/db7258b19f5faba6?tvc=1&
q=Lower+compiler+and+linker+priority%3F+group:microsoft.public.vc.ide_general&
hl=en#db7258b19f5faba6

Guess who's at the top of that thread?

Anyway, if that doesn't work, paste this in the search box:

Lower compiler and linker priority? group:microsoft.public.vc.ide_general

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Alain Dekker - 31 May 2005 14:16 GMT

Thanks for that, Kyle - I missed those comments!

However, I followed the procedure it suggests, and it didn't make any
difference - vcspawn.exe and cl.exe are still in Normal priority.

Have you managed to get it to work?

Thanks,
Alain Dekker

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Alain Dekker - 31 May 2005 14:24 GMT

I followed the suggestion in the article on codeguru by searching for the
string "68 00 02" in vcspawn.exe and modified that to "68 40 02" (this was
at address 0x1930).

It works like a charm!

Thanks again,
Alain Dekker

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