taskinfo works, but this is easier...
you can find it in the readme file...Changing the priority of the client
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You can change the default priority of the client by modifying the foldit
script as described above for quiet mode and increasing the buffer size.
Simply add the switch '-p ##' where ## is the desired priority. This can
range from -20 (extremely aggressive; will pre-empt most other tasks) to
the default of 20 (very passive, only runs when the CPU is idle).
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[-20, 20] is used On Windows and mapped accordingly. Use 15 for Low, 0
for Normal and -15 for High. Other values will more finely tune the
priority further.
also, I would say that in general, changing the priority will only increase work on a machine that is not otherwise idle (ie, being used) and thus is directly proportional to the frustration you will feel as a user of the machine...
however, another fine use for taskinfo is to monitor the % CPU utilization... on the machine I use (as opposed to one of my farm animals), the CPU %utilization hovers around 90-95% for df when otherwise idle, even at the default priority... even on a farm animal, I don't think you get much more (because the machine is otherwise idle), but I do set them to a priority of -15 anyway...
but realtime???