Set CPU usage limit on a particular app (Tough

[vbnew]

Experts,

got any idea of how to limit the cpu usage by a particular program ... say for example ... i would like to make the program utilize 50 % of the CPU processing ................... whatever the program does, it will definitely not gonna use the cpu processing power over 50%.....

[jian2587]

I've an idea that almost does what u want. This idea suits well
only if ur codes are in a loop.

So, first, u need to collaborate the global CPU usage reading with
ur app. Say, u check the CPU usage for 3 seconds, then get the
average out of it. Say, it's about 2%.

Then u run ur code loop, at the same time, check CPU usage. If it
exceeds 52%(50%+2%), stop it, and check how many loops have
been executed per second. Say, 100 loops per second.

After that, everytime u execute ur loop, put some conditional
codes that always check if the loops executed per second has
exceeded 100 loops per second. If it is, then execute Sleep
API with a value of 0 passed to it. By passing a zero value, u ask
the program to give the remaining timeslice to other threads.

[vbnew]

okay ... cool idea. /


but my case is that (its not a fast loop). it is a timer loop... depending on the miliseconds value