That's what I get for trying to do a real link without looking at my cheat-sheet!
It may be world class advise, but I very seldom go to DU, and I'm not going this time... "Power users" who want to tweak their systems also can try this forum
http://forum.folding-community.org/homepage.php
It has a forum and a wiki. (say what?)
I think he's full of it... but if people want to play with priorities the way he 'recommends', let them play. I doubt they'll see any measurable benefit.
I've already posted references to a discussion on the Hyper-Threading issue. Running multiple consoles in an HT environment could get you a few more points over the long run, but could also delay the submission of folding results.
A word of caution though, to anyone who uses this method, only do this to machines that you do not intend on using for any sort of normal
activities, in between folding sessions. Setting the cpu priority to high, pretty much renders that machine unusable for anything but folding.
The recovery time, lags anywhere from 10-15 seconds, and on older machines, up to 60 seconds. If anyone else is going to be using that machine, then
you need to warn them, that they can't just shake the mouse, and begin surfing. What you're doing, by cranking the cpu priority up, is decreasing the "detected" idle time, so if you quit surfing, for even a half second, the core is back to 100%, and the time it takes to resore cpu resources back to other programs, is also increased. ie, it's quicker to shoot up to 100% utilization, and slower to release the cpu, for other activities.
I've only got 12 machines that I can do this on, and they're all older AMD 1.2's, that were retired from active service anyway, and are doing nothing
but taking up space, and heating my garage.
But for machines that wouldn't otherwise be doing anything, Berni is right, this will give you anywhere from 5-20% boost in efficiency.