I'm doing some very heavy computation on a Windows Server 2012 machine. Like, thousands of processes doing heavy stuff.
Occasionally, I want to do some administration work and check progress. But the Windows GUI elements are all slow/unresponsive due to the load.
Is there a way to configure Windows to give higher priority to the GUI once it starts being used (ex: when moving the mouse)?
An alternative is to make something that programmatically lowers my program's thread priority. (Like, I can set all my worker threads to lowest priority.) But I'm curious if there's a simpler way.
