Comment 2 for bug 792781

On June 4, 2011 10:36:44 AM tmodes wrote:
> > Details in `man nice`.
>
> This does not help me.
>
> Short test on windows: change priority of ptbatchergui to high, but
> started child processes (make/cpfind/nona) are all running with normal
> priority. So at least on windows changing the process priority of
> ptbatchergui would not help so much. (Nice does only change the cpu
> priority, but maybe also the i/o priority needs to be changed.)
>
> wxExecute - which is used to start make - does not support a priority
> switch.

I suspected that the started child processes were all running with normal
priority. Managing scheduling priority is a wish. Maybe it needs to be
implemented at the make level and not at the PTBatcherGUI level.

Ideally I would like a system that gives priority to the user's interaction
with the GUI, rather than treating all processes equal and making the user
wait.