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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Render and GUI priority ?
Date: 3 Nov 2001 06:56:24
Message: <3be3db68$1@news.povray.org>
WinNT, Povray 3.5 beta 7 intel, PIII
Has something changed in the render or GUI priority settings ? I usually set
render priority to lowest and GUI priority to highest but with beta 7 it
looks like that even with these settings the GUI is slowed down when a
render is in progress. I can't "feel" a difference between a "lowest" render
priority and a "normal" one.

Somebody else noticed this, or is it just me ?

G.

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From: Kari Kivisalo
Subject: Re: Render and GUI priority ?
Date: 3 Nov 2001 07:19:19
Message: <3BE3E0D0.EB848449@engineer.com>
Gilles Tran wrote:
>
> Side note (2) : the problem is easy to demonstrate by running winamp during
> a render (skyvase.pov at 800x600 for instance). The sound stops and goes
> with beta 7 while it's correct with 3.1g.

I don't even notice when pov is running at lower priority.
Winamp 2.76 plays just fine even when pov has highest priority.

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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: Render and GUI priority ?
Date: 3 Nov 2001 07:45:34
Message: <3be3e6ee$1@news.povray.org>

> I don't even notice when pov is running at lower priority.
> Winamp 2.76 plays just fine even when pov has highest priority.

My mistake in that case. Winamp runs fine with a low-priority pov, it's the
Morpheus player that doesn't like it when Povray beta 7 is running. However,
Povray beta-7 at highest priority isn't too gentle with Winamp on my PIII
733, unlike Povray 3.1g. I can live with that but still looks like beta-7 is
less accommodating when sharing resources (CPU ?) that the previous builds.

G.
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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: Render and GUI priority ?
Date: 3 Nov 2001 18:44:29
Message: <3be4815d@news.povray.org>
> 733, unlike Povray 3.1g. I can live with that but still looks like beta-7 is
> less accommodating when sharing resources (CPU ?) that the previous builds.

None of the code relating to render priority etc. has changed recently (in fact
I don't even think I changed it since the 3.1g days).

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From: Gilles Tran
Subject: Re: Render and GUI priority ?
Date: 4 Nov 2001 10:50:44
Message: <3be563d4@news.povray.org>
OK, it must have been a temporary thing with NT then.

G.

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de news: 3be4815d@news.povray.org...
> > 733, unlike Povray 3.1g. I can live with that but still looks like
beta-7 is
> > less accommodating when sharing resources (CPU ?) that the previous
builds.
>
> None of the code relating to render priority etc. has changed recently (in
fact
> I don't even think I changed it since the 3.1g days).
>
> -- Chris
>
>


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From: Bonsai
Subject: Re: Render and GUI priority ?
Date: 5 Nov 2001 05:00:33
Message: <3be66341$1@news.povray.org>
> My mistake in that case. Winamp runs fine with a low-priority pov, it's
the
> Morpheus player that doesn't like it when Povray beta 7 is running.
However,
> Povray beta-7 at highest priority isn't too gentle with Winamp on my PIII
> 733, unlike Povray 3.1g. I can live with that but still looks like beta-7
is
> less accommodating when sharing resources (CPU ?) that the previous
builds.

I had the same behaviour on my NT machine, but was not sure whether it was
only my imagnination or not. POV-Ray 3.5 beta 7 was not so nice to other
processes even if the process itself was set to lowest priority in the task
manager. I tried to compile something and normaly the compiler got most of
the CPU time. But with the new beta it does not. This happend only one or
two times and I can't reproduce it now. :-(

Sorry, but I can't give more evidence. I will have a look on it...

So long,

Bonsai

P.S. PII 450 MHz, 128 MB RAM, WinNT 4 Service Pack 5


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