So, I'm on cold medicine. My wife warned me before taking it. My response: "But I took it last night while we were watching Alias (season 2) and I was fine..." Sure enough, I'm almost impaired at this point...
But, I'm busy running winrar on a 2GB image - and it's taking up 100% of my CPU.
Outlook, of course, simply won't run. It takes it HOURS to paint anything.
But here's what's interesting: I've got VS 2005 Team Developer whatzit on my same box. It's snappy as heck. Feeling a bit risky (it's the cold medicine I tell you) I decided to build my project - just for the hell of it. I figured at worst I'd see some smoke from my machine, take a few months off of it's life, and watch as the machine crumbled to its knees for a few minutes.
Instead, VS 2005 just compiled my project - in about 3 seconds total. While the box was at 100% cpu utilization. I'm seriously so impressed by VS 2005. The thing rocks.
And... here's a skype interchange I had with Carson while all this took place (just to dis on Outlook):
Carson says: haha - did you see the weekly code project poll results?
Carson says: I've had ALL of those "injuries"
Mike says: sorry, can't talk now
Mike says: outlook has commandeered one of my emails
Mike says: here's the deal:
Carson says: ?
Mike says: outlook 100% refuses to work when cpu utilization is at 100%
Carson says: and ironically, when it DOES work, it utilizes 100% of the CPU!
Ain't that the truth...
That's cool, but isn't it a matter of application priority? I'm not saying Outlook isn't a hog, but I'd guess in terms of priority, Outlook < WinRAR < VS2005, which is why VS runs uninterrupted but Outlook can't get a time slice. Even if WinRAR was running in the background, it may not be lower than Outlook. (Could you get any lower than Outlook? *snicker*)
As an experiment, you could try using PowerMenu (http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/readme.htm) to mess with the priority of each process, and see how it goes. Just for fun :)
-Brian
Posted by: Brian | November 01, 2005 at 12:02 PM
Interesting idea. But no - Outlook just sucks. Both applications are set at the same priority in windows (by default - and on my box).
VS 2005 was just written to be multi-threaded, and Outlook was merely MARKETED as being multi-threaded.
Though I do love your *snicker*.. cuz yeah, I don't think you could go any lower than Outlook...
Posted by: Michael K. Campbell | November 01, 2005 at 12:34 PM
Have you ever tried the Airborne cold medicine? My wife tried it and it worked great... She never got the cold everyone else had in the house.
Posted by: Airborne Cold Medicine | March 11, 2007 at 11:17 PM