Re: [darktable-devel] Thread priorities...

2013-07-29 Thread johannes hanika
well, about threads. we have a fixed pool of worker threads, you can configure how many that is in your config (but please don't go and do that now, hopefully it will become clear why not). these guys have a work queue, which should really have priorities but it doesn't at this point. there is the

[darktable-devel] Thread priorities...

2013-07-29 Thread Daniel J Blueman
It looks like we don't call setpriority(2) or equivalent to keep threads doing non-interactive work at a lower priority. This would make the GUI less slow when eg exporting or otherwise. Any objections or reasoning why not? Daniel -- Daniel J Blueman ---