Mad Doggie
13th October 2003 15:57 UTC

MAKENSIS.EXE priority
One pet peeve I have is the priority that MAKENSIS gets run at from MAKENSISW. I have installers that need to compress 40-260MB of raw data, and when MAKENSIS goes to compress the whole thing it locks the CPU at 99-100% for the time.

If the process priority is normal, I'm fighting it while I work in the foreground. If the process priority gets dropped to Below Normal, it simply sucks all of my unused cycles and IE/Notes/etc become more responsive. It's a pain going into Task Manager to manually do this. Would it be possible to have an MAKENSISW change that would allow us to specify the priority MAKENSIS gets spawned at?

Cheers!

Luke

mgillespie
14th October 2003 13:33 UTC

If it's of any use, you can start any application you wish, at any set priority, using the Start command. (see syntax below:)

Start.exe /LOW C:\progra~1\Makensis.exe myscript.nsi

kichik
15th October 2003 23:26 UTC

Add a feature request on the SF project page. There should probably be a !priority command in NSIS.