Am 09.05.2010 20:55, schrieb Warp:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> Having the render
>> automatically drop into the background when more urgent work(*) starts
>> running is a useful setting.
>
>    That's a task for the operating system to do, not the program. All
> modern multitasking operating systems have process priorities (although
> I don't remember if you can actually fine-tune it manually in Windows).

While you're right in theory, practice mandates otherwise. MS Windows 
(at least XP with default configuration) is still rather poor at dealing 
with process priorities; setting POV-Ray's process priority low may 
reduce the total time spent on rendering, but it doesn't seem to improve 
system responsiveness much. I guess Windows uses comparatively long time 
slices, and refuses to cut them short when a higher-priority process 
becomes ready.

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