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Message: [QUOTE="tom st denis, post: 5020028"] You can create threads with various priority settings in Windows. And you can use nice() in Linux/UNIX.... Both can then call a standard library function you write to process "work." All of which is OT... BTW typically if someone wants to run a daemon that does background heat generation [er... number crunching for whatever cause] they don't want it fixed to a max of x% but more so "lowest damn priority possible." As per your later posts I don't get what a "upto x%" limit buys you. Why not just set x to 100 and then run it at idle level? Would someone really want their computer to be 50% idling when not doing anything giving your program 50% of the cpu? In terms of energy efficiency it's actually better to give it 100% (for instance, the higher power draw of the ARM A15 than the A9 is offset by the fact the core is busy less doing the same unit of work). Tom [/QUOTE]