Infinite Recursion

In windows: explorer.exe would be a critical system task. (btw iexplorer is for internet explorer).

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Sane

Sorry, I sort of phrased my question wrong.

I didn't mean critical as in critical to being there, but critical to having a higher priority then all other programs.

Like if explorer has less memory available, can something actually go wrong?

MBirchmeier

If explorer has as more memory available than it would ever concieveably use something can go wrong (and probablly will )

Generally interrupting/ignoring/delaying OS level commands is a good way to have bad things happen. I don't think priority determines the amount of memory a process can have but rather it's weight in the queue to use CPU time, and the amount of time it gets to spend in the CPU accordingly. A good example of a problem this could cause is if the OS doesn't get enough time to calculate screen output according to the refresh rate of the monitor the screen could get choppy or inaccurate.

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*Note: The above posting is in no way based on anything proven, and I could be wrong, I'm just going based on things I remember from various OS and cpu management classes, so if I'm spewing a load of crap please correct me*

jayme

Gui would most likely just process slower than usual. Nothing (aside from windows/folders/etc.. loading a bit slower) should happen so long as it still has a minimal amount of memory available, which cant be too high.

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Sane

Well the computer is not even being used, so should I care about that? The only thing the computer is actually for is running one python script.

coldDeath

Maybe you should run linux, its perfect for what you need, you wouldn't need the GUI and other rubbish running at all, saving memory and you wouldn't need all the clutter, saving disk space. :-)

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