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Can I interrupt?
A program with a very small footprint that can check if now is a good time | |
...to do some heavy processing like taking a periodical
automatic screenshot.
For example, if I have a time tracker, and I want it to watch
what I'm doing and then help me see how much time I spent
on various stuff: But I don't want it taking screenshots while
I'm doing heavy video processing
like perhaps when I'm
creating a video using an online video-creation app which
needs all the resources available from my poor laptop.
This service app, which will come as part of the next version
of your operating system, will enable programmers to ask
howBusyIsTheProcessor and you well get an evaluation
between 1 to 10.
Heavy duty programs would notify the PC that they are about
to submerge themselves in some deep thought which needs a
lot of brains, so please 1. Expect the system to be less
responsive. 2. Allow unimportant but cooperative programs to
stand down. 3. And have them ping our program less
frequently so that you don't get stuck.
Linux : Niceness
https://askubuntu.c...iceness-vs-priority
From what I gather here, niceness is used to help the operating system assign assign priority. Not sure how that plays out in practice with multicore systems and the like. [zen_tom, Feb 18 2021]
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//Heavy duty programs would notify the PC that they are
about to submerge themselves in some deep thought// |
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This is a widespread and fairly fundamental problem. I'm
unaware of any (education in this welcome) program that
checks anything like that before it does it. If I want to
move a big dataset from one drive to another, Windows
can't tell me "You know there's not enough room for that
and even if there was it will take 9 hours, right?". Other
programs that I use that do heavy computation, they just
lock up. Or at least the GUI does, then, a few hours later
it unfreezes, work done. In the meantime, Windows is
like "X.exe isn't responding..." It would be nice if
programs would perform the basic courtesy of any
reasonable employee: "And when do you need that
boss?... tomorrow afternoon... k, a one core job then" |
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//doing heavy video processing.... my poor laptop// |
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You see where you're going wrong there? The laptop is
just a tool, in this case it's a little panel hammer, sure you
can demolish a house with that. But, instead of feeling
sorry for it and changing the task, what you need is a
wrecking-ball of a video editing rig... I'd say treat
yourself to a high end Ryzen with a big, fast NVMe drive
and a brute of a graphics card, but the global supply
situation isn't favoring that at the moment. There is a lot
of value to be had in dual CPU Dell workstations coming
off lease/companies folding. |
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Same with other resource use, like internet bandwidth |
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In linux, there's the idea of "nice"-ness, where each running
task is assigned a priority. A nice value of -19 is considered
not very nice at all and will not get out of the way of
anything else, while a task with a nice value of 20 will be
very accommodating of other task's use of any central
resources. |
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I don't know what this same function might be called in
windows, or other operating systems, but it's a fairly
common thing - at least at the operating system level. |
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The advancing iteration of AI will assign the how nice your task is.
Isn't halfbakery a serialization of loosely connected interruptions ? So Yes |
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Don't forget the irruptions, abruptions, eruptions and
corruptions. |
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