Re: Windows service Vs Console app performance

From: Russell Hind (no-one_at_no-where.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:14:34 +0100

William Stacey [MVP] wrote:

> I know w2k+ you can set priority of system for forground programs (i.e.
> your console, winapps, etc) and services to be different. Default is
> higher prio for programs (which is normally better for interactive
> use.) Try changing performance options in System Icon to Background and
> see if that changes speed for you. See the JPG.
>

But as I've mentioned, this should only help if he has other processes
running using lots of CPU time, then the service will not get as much
time on the CPU.

But if the CPU is basically idle so only his service is running, then it
can have as much CPU time as it wants, bar what is needed for the OS, so
it may make a small difference if non-essential OS services are now
higher priority, but not to the extent the user is seeing.

Maybe he has another processor intensive task running at the same time?

Cheers

Russell