On 21/03/06, Jonathan Mitchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Note: In a thread discussing fault tolerance, the concept of multiple > managers was brought up, so I figure I ought to mention my thoughts on > the subject.) > > One of the things I'd been thinking of is how to modify the Executor > functionality and GUI so that it gives the "end user" more control > over what's happening. While I don't think that fine grained control > over threads is a good idea, I think that there should be a way to > throttle the thread priority for all Alchemi threads running on their > machine. > > The reason for this: when I was running my 'calculate pi to the 100k > digit' test, there were times where certain operations on the machines > ran extremely slow until the Executor was shut down (for instance, > saving from a specific text editor). While I understand that the > design is that only 'idle' resources are used, sometimes it seems that > there are thread priority conflicts and some non-Alchemi things seem > to be slowed down.
Does anyone have any good links for how windows handles process priorities? Seeing as I use Linux mainly I always laugh heartily when everything else stops when running a vb6 compilation or other such things (OCR, whatever...). It is almost certainly due to a combination of slack programming and users always running as superuser... How does alchemi do this - anything to get me started? Might it be possible to do the equivalent of suid to a user which runs all processes with a priority of 19? Is this what is currently being done? Cheers Antoine ps. I read somewhere that Vista will be a quantum leap forward with this sort of thing... -- This is where I should put some witty comment. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ alchemi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alchemi-users
