[Tilesathome] Render niceness

[Matthias Julius]

"David Lynch" <djlynch at gmail.com> writes:

> I know that there's work ongoing to try to improve the speed of the
> optimization of tiles, but as a more temporary measure, I've modified
> the script on my local machine to use separate niceness values for
> rendering and optimizing, and running the optimizing at a higher
> priority than the rendering (nice -n5 for optimizing, nice -n10 for
> rendering) seems to have sped things up substantially. I can commit
> this to SVN if the group is interested, but I wanted to check with
> everyone first, especially the server folks, to make sure that the
> possible increase in upload frequency wouldn't be a problem.

I would wait for Knut to merge in his rasterizer.

Don't worry about the server.  If clients upload too much stuff it
will just slow down handing out new jobs.

Matthias