Renicer for Mac

User Reviews

• It works as advertised. Have used it for about 5 years.

  eniteworkDecember 1, 2011

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  It frees up ram in short order, especially if you have a maxed out (as in a 2005 iBook) your RAM. It makes the difference between running Tiger or Leopard.

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  It takes up precious menubar space.

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• Feels slower

  cristianaSeptember 23, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I used this program to try to eek out more performance on my 400mhz powerbook. Even with much tweaking, this program seemed to make my entire system slower.

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• I've stopped using Renicer

  NickCollingridgeJuly 17, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I had used renicer since i first moved over to MacOS X many many moons ago, but I had a major system crash which necessitated an archive and install. This caused me to question all of the stuff I had loaded on my system and I tested to see what difference it made. On my system (G4AGP/800) I have to say that I cannot see any positive benefit from Renicer, either in terms of subjective responsiveness or objectively in terms of what I can see in top. The one major disadvantage is that switching between apps is definitely slower with renicer running (not surprisingly as renicer has to change the nice value as part of the application switch). One point is that I think Jaguar is much better at minimising the amount of processor time used by applications which are idling in the background - most of them when looked at in top use essentially no processor time at all. So in this case I can't really see what positive purpose renicer serves. If you want to use it, fine, and I'm sure for some it does serve a positive purpose. Personally though I won't be using it again on my system.

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• PSmithApril 14, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Tried it using the default settings, and got the Colored Pinwheel of Boredom every time I tried to use a Finder window toolbar. So I

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• ZaphireApril 14, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great idea. Works well. But since its not an application that actually does something for the user, it should really be turned into a preference

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• youcanrunnakedApril 14, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Works great, and the developer is right on top of the OS updates. Thanks! Would also like to see individual process settings, saved profiles, menu

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• todds69April 14, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I agree with previous posters that this would be a better menu widget than dock item. perhaps znapPe is onto something: combine the auto boost

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• znapPeApril 13, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Well.. I'm using "Process Wizard" to squeeze all the juice out of the PowerBook G3 Pismo, when I'm playing "Ghost Recon", and it does a

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• MikeWelsh--2008March 18, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />In my iBook, the practically instant improvements in the application merit five stars for the app and the developer. Thanks a lot - Renicer is

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• youcanrunnakedMarch 17, 2003

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Left this one for a while, as it actually made the system lag, and development seemed to have come to a halt. Giving it another

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