On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:44 PM, <philip.chime...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:23 PM Per <pmknut...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is there a way I can run a command asynchronously in Gnome JavaScript? >> > > There is Gio.Subprocess, but it would be better to do all this without > shelling out in the first place. It's not good to spawn hundreds of > processes at once, synchronously or not! Here's some (untested) code that > might help you: >
Thanks! I would never have figured this out. The code worked great as-is. No more Gnome shell freezing while running the loop. This code still may have a problem; you'll want to avoid running hundreds > of threads at the same time, all doing file I/O. To solve that, you could > consider using recursion instead of a loop; start with an array of files > that you want to process, pass it into a function with the above code, then > in the callback to set_attributes_async(), pop the processed element off > the array and do the same thing again until the array is empty. That way, > the files will all be processed sequentially and asynchronously. > Yes, this is a better solution. I'm testing on hundreds of I/O threads, but the code may have to run thousands of these updates in edge cases. As they're not time-sensitive, executing them sequentially and at low priority seems to be preferred. Thanks again for the excellent solution!
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