Hello,
I have noticed that firefoxportable.exe is constantly switching contexts (can be seen with process explorer for example). seems like a resource hog - any reason for this ?
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Could you please elaborate on what "switching contexts" means?
Tim
Things have got to get better, they can't get worse, or can they?
You can download procexp and see the context switch count per application on your computer (just add the column to the grid)
I got like 10 to 12 context switches per second for each of the launchers I tested.
Though I don't know if this is really an amount that could be considered a resource hog.
But either way, I'd expect this to be something NSIS related (the script language the launchers are written in), so it'd be questionable if this could be changed by PA.c without recompiling some part/plugin of NSIS (the thing that checks whether the actual application is still running must be the culprit I think; most likely something that is part of "ExecWait").
"Der Klügere gibt nach, deshalb regieren Dumme die Welt."
I get also around 10-12 per second, constantly.
most passive applications which do nothing, are with 0 context switch delta.
I cannot think of any reason why the NSIS launcher should be active in the background.