Updated: 10/18/2005; 6:52:42 PM

  Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Changing Radio's Processor Usage

I've been playing quite a bit with Radio's prefs to reduce the processor burden on my older Mac now hosting my Radio weblog. I've made things a bit easier by changing some buried preferences:

  • user.radio.prefs.maxDataFiles -- was 3, now 15
  • user.radio.prefs.thread.secsBetweenChecks -- was 10, now 60
  • user.radio.prefs.upstream.secsBetweenChecks -- was 10, now 120

And under user.radio.prefs.glossary:

  • flReadNightly to false
  • logging to false

These settings help the agents that watch over Radio to run less often and thereby use less of my processor.