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What the OS needs is a way to tell CPU-hungry applications no. One misbehaving app (looking at you, Teams) is enough to pull the CPU to max power consumption an
by nikanj 4y ago
What the OS needs is a way to tell CPU-hungry applications no. One misbehaving app (looking at you, Teams) is enough to pull the CPU to max power consumption and wreck the battery life.
Just keeping the clocks low and letting banner ads rotate a little more slowly would make for much happier users. Even if I set the priority of an app to minimum, the OS still does it’s best to respond to CPU demands
- fmajid 4y agoOn macOS apps can specify a desired Quality of Service per thread, and so background threads get scheduled to th power-efficient E cores. I don't know if Windows has any similar mechanism, and Posix threads certainly don't.
- nikanj 4y agoApps always ask for the premium class ultra performance QoS, because every developer strongly believes your computer exists solely to run their app