How to: Configure the priority boost Option (SQL Server Management Studio)
SQL Server 2005
Use the priority boost option to specify whether Microsoft SQL Server should run at a higher Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 scheduling priority than other processes on the same computer. If you set this option to 1, SQL Server runs at a priority base of 13 in the Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 scheduler. The default is 0, which is a priority base of 7.
