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- ChangeTaskPri(V1.3,2.x,3.x) Location: C:)
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- NAME
- ChangeTaskPri - Change a tasks execution priority.
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- SYNOPSIS
- ChangeTaskPri [P=Pri] [T=TASK=PROCESS]
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- DESCRIPTION
- By increasing/decreasing the priority of various
- tasks in the system, you can increase/decrease the amount
- of CPU time each task is allocated. If no type the
- command without a number, it will return the task
- priority number of that command.
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- If executed with no arguments, ChangeTaskPri will
- return the priority of the currently executing process.
- This is useful in shell scripts.
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- Your Amiga's operating system was created where each
- task that is running gets assigned a priority from -128
- to 127. The processor examines this number and prioritises
- the tasks. The higher the number the more processing time
- will be alloted to it by the processor.
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- WARNING: Never raise a task priority higher than 5 or
- less than -5. If you raise it above 5 you will override
- important system tasks such as the input handler (which
- checks the keyboard and the mouse). If the priority is
- below -5 it will be completely shut out of the CPU by the
- most trivial of instruction.
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- EXAMPLE
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- 1. To change task 3's priority to -5
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- ChangeTaskPri -5 Process 3
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- 2. To Change current CLI's priority
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- ChangeTaskPri 5
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- 3. 2.x/3.x ONLY: To utilize the backtick feature to
- change the priority of the C:CONCLIP task to 5
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- ChangeTaskPri 5 Process 'Status com=c:conclip'
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