[Digikam-devel] [Bug 110658] Thumb generation process should have low priority

[krienke at uni-koblenz.de]

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------- Additional Comments From krienke uni-koblenz de  2005-08-12 22:36 -------
If low priority should be implemented it should be an option. I run my system (P4, 3GHZ) in dynamic mode i.e. the CPU speed is scaled down to keep the system silent if there is nothing to do. When there is nothing to do for the cpu it runs at a Speed of 1GHZ producing less heat than with 3GHZ and less noise. When there is something to do the system automatically scales up to the full speed of  3GHZ and down again if there is no active process. 

The problem is, that this scaling process to full speed happens only if the process is *not* running at a low nice level. So when thumb generation happens at a low nice level I would have the problem that the thumb generation is very very slow since it would be performed with 1GHZ speed instead of 3GHZ used now.