What instability can occur from changing a program's priority through Taskmanager?

[Azurael]

I am wondering about any type of program, but most specifically games browers and profesional medical applications.

 

For example at work we have a web based program that lists people's appointments in a queue (we use google chrome btw). Some times it works perfectly and the minute someone is queued to another location it displays on my screen other times it takes a couple seconds. Then there are times where I can only get the most up to date queue list by constantly refreshing my brower's page.

At this point I have to close qnd reopen Chrome to get get it to update the queue regularly on its own.

 

I was thinking I could adjust the priority to maybe get the PC I am on to update the list more quikely. Yes, I know it there is outside factors in play here like the network conection, network traffic vs. band width, the server traffic and the server conection. I am just trying to think of things I can do to make my job easier.

[Blqckqut]

9 minutes ago, Azurael said:

I am wondering about any type of program, but most specifically games browers and profesional medical applications.

 

For example at work we have a web based program that lists people's appointments in a queue (we use google chrome btw). Some times it works perfectly and the minute someone is queued to another location it displays on my screen other times it takes a couple seconds. Then there are times where I can only get the most up to date queue list by constantly refreshing my brower's page.

At this point I have to close qnd reopen Chrome to get get it to update the queue regularly on its own.

 

I was thinking I could adjust the priority to maybe get the PC I am on to update the list more quikely. Yes, I know it there is outside factors in play here like the network conection, network traffic vs. band width, the server traffic and the server conection. I am just trying to think of things I can do to make my job easier.

if its web based its internet connectivity, most likely sever side since thats the thing that needs to update

[Azurael]

1 hour ago, Blqckqut said:

if its web based its internet connectivity, most likely sever side since thats the thing that needs to update

The funny thing is others will not have the issue while I am having it. So if I am honest I am thinking it is either per system conectivity or just the server responding fast for some than others.

 

What instability can occur with priority changes though?

[Kilrah]

It's not going to have any effect unless your CPU is at full load or close to it, if it does then what you set higher priority will cause other things to slow down, whatever effect that has depends on what you're running.