Don't think there is a hog switch, but there is no reason not to start
another Squeak.

On 5/4/07, Sam Livingston-Gray <sam at timestream.net> wrote:
> Hello, all-
>
> I've written a relatively long-running search program (started it
> yesterday afternoon, and it was still chugging away when I left the
> house this morning).  I can leave it going indefinitely on my desktop
> PC, but I noticed in the task manager that the Squeak process was
> using exactly 50% of available CPU.  This remains the same regardless
> of whether the VM preference for "reduce CPU usage" is checked.  In
> the image itself, the "higherPerformance" preference is checked.
>
> (This is under Squeak 3.9 on a WinXP machine.  If I remember
> correctly, the CPU itself is one of the vintage 2005 hyperthreading
> Intel chips.)
>
> Is there a way to tell the VM to hog the CPU?  Failing that, would
> there be any significant reason *not* to start a second Squeak
> session to run another such job at the same time?  (=
>
> Thanks,
> -Sam Livingston-Gray
>   comp.sci. senior, Portland State University
>
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