Process Wizard - 1.18

My ageing G4 was groaning a little under the weighty of today's hungry apps. Real-time info from MenuMeters showed that the bottlenecks were in the CPU, which was running far too often at 100 percent utilisation. Then hey, presto! I download this little beauty and whenever I have one of those CPU-intensive applications running in front, I can downgrade (or kill) background process to speed things up.

Process Wizard – it's like having a faster CPU!

the renice tool i've been looking for. much better than calling up terminal and doing it by hand. and a great visual interface to boot.
having it remember settings would be great, but it works well the way it is. should be in every default distribuion of mac os x.

thank you for a great program!

Oh YES!!! Finally. I was getting sick of cracking open a new shell every time I wanted to change the priority of an app--now it's only a click away in the menu bar! What a great idea and best of all, this app truly feels like a Mac app, it feels like it belongs in OS X.

Got my whole freakin' system cranked to -20, dock and finder are pumped to -25, and I launch Internet Explorer to run in the background at +30 just because it feels good. Safari is always pegged at -30 unless I'm trying to get work done, when I leave it at -20.

No, seriously, I barely ever renice ANYTHING, but when I do (usually to turn a hog into a kitten), it's nice to have this app. All of the times I've experimented with altering system and app priorities to make my system "seem" faster, it's always gotten a whole hell of a lot slower. There's another renice utility, called "renicer", that automatically gives the finder and dock higher priority, and it changes the priority of apps on the fly to keep the front app mean and the background apps nice. Well, Renicer is almost guaranteed to totally fsck your system's performance and it's a very good thing indeed to find a utility like Process Wizard that doesn't muck around in the background and permits the user to do fine tweaking as well as gross system (mis)administration.

My only complaint is that PW doesn't have other options for the GUI. My menubar region is getting crowded, and for rarely used (at least for me) utilities like PW I like to have them in "materializer" windows that appear with a hotkey combo. Keeps things less cluttered, but I know this isn't a commonly used GUI, so it's more a suggestion than a criticism.

Only second complaint is that it needs preferences in case there is a priority setting profile the user uses often or persistently. :)

your great product and generousity La Chose!

actually the same (although a new one is forthcoming). This is a repost from Versiontracker probably because the url has changed. Sorry for the unconvenience.